An actor should take lessons from a painter and a sculptor.

I am amazed to see how deliberately I have entangled myself step by step. To have seen my position so clearly, and yet to have acted so like a child!

Only that type of story deserves to be called moral that shows us that one has the power within oneself to act, out of the conviction that there is something better, even against one's own inclination.

I examine my own being, and find there a world, but a world rather of imagination and dim desires, than of distinctness and living power. Then everything swims before my senses, and I smile and dream while pursuing my way through the world.

Who can think wise or stupid things at all that were not thought already in the past.

Oh God, how do the world and heavens confine themselves, when our hearts tremble in their own barriers!

Man errs as long as he strives.