I am what I am, so take me as I am!.

Hell begins the day that God grants you the vision to see all that you could have done, should have done, and would have done, but did not do.

He who has a task to perform must know how to take sides, or he is quite unworthy of it.

Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it.

We can most safely achieve truly universal tolerance when we respect that which is characteristic in the individual and in nations, clinging, though, to the conviction that the truly meritorious is unique by belonging to all of mankind.

Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language and forthwith it is something entirely different.

Objects in pictures should so be arranged as by their very position to tell their own story.