Every second is of infinite value.

[W]hat counts is that one perceives excellence and dares to give it expression, which sounds little but is in fact a great deal.

I wish the stage were as narrow as the wire of a tighrope dancer so that no incompetent would dare step upon it.

It is equally a mistake to hold one's self too high, or to rate one's self too cheap.

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

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

Every spoken word arouses our self-will.