The true, prescriptive artist strives after artistic truth; the lawless artist, following blind instinct, after an appearance of naturalness. The one leads to the highest peaks of art, the other to its lowest depths.

All understanding begins in wonder!

If you treat men the way they are you never improve them. If you treat them the way you want them to be, you do.

Fortunately, we can take in only so much misfortune; what exceeds that limit either destroys us or leaves us indifferent.

Few people have the imagination for reality.

Against criticism a man can neither protest nor defend himself; he must act in spite of it, and then it will gradually yield to him.

On the pinnacle of success man does not stand firm long.