So long as you live and work, you will be misunderstood; to that you must resign yourself once and for all. Be silent!

Neither a work of nature nor one of art we get to know when they have been finished; we must surprise them in the process of beingcreated so as to understand them to some degree.

Every individual who is not creative has a negative, narrow, exclusive taste and succeeds in depriving creative being of its energy and life.

Our friends show us what we can do; our enemies teach us what we must do.

Be always resolute with the present hour. Every moment is of infinite value.

Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time.

It is unpleasant to miss even the most trifling thing to which we have been accustomed.