Our mistakes and failures are always the first to strike us, and outweigh in our imagination what we have accomplished and attained.

The realization of the self is only possible if one is productive, if one can give birth to one's own potentialities.

For the butterfly, mating and propagation involve the sacrifice of life, for the human being, the sacrifice of beauty.

Music is so elevated that it is beyond the reach of intellect and there flows from it an influence which is all-potent, and which noone can explain.

An actor should take lessons from a painter and a sculptor.

Personality is everything in art and poetry.

If one has not read the newspapers for some months and then reads them all together, one sees, as one never saw before, how much time is wasted with this kind of literature.