Whenever I hear people talking about liberal ideas, I am always astounded that men should love to fool themselves with empty sounds. An idea should never be liberal; it must be vigorous, positive, and without loose ends so that it may fulfill its divine mission and be productive.

People should talk less and draw more. Personally, I would like to renounce speech altogether and, like organic nature, communicate everything I have to say visually.

What do people mean when they talk about unhappiness? It is not so much unhappiness as impatience that from time to time possesses men, and then they choose to call themselves miserable.

The best fortune that can fall to a man is that which corrects his defects and makes up for his failings.

A noble man is led by woman's gentle words.

Of the truly creative no one is ever master; it must be left to go its own way.

Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it; and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.