The man who acts never has any conscience; no one has any conscience but the man who thinks

That we understand something perfectly, that we accomplish something better than anyone else around us, that is what matters.

We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.

For I have been a man, and that means to have been a fighter.

Whatever liberates our spirit, without also giving us mastery over ourselves, is destructive.

Man can find no better retreat from the world than art, and man can find no stronger link with the world than art.

For usually people resist as long as they can to dismiss the fool they harbor in their bosom, they resist to confess a major mistake or to admit a truth that makes them despair.