The universal subjugator, the commonplace.

To the world you might be one person, but to one person, you might be the world. Kindness is the golden chain by which our world is bound together.

It is in self-limitation that a master first shows himself.

I had rather be Mercury, the smallest among seven [planets], revolving round the sun, than the first among five [moons] revolving round Saturn.

Art is in itself noble; that is why the artist has no fear of what is common. This, indeed, is already ennobled when he takes it up.

All professional men are handicapped by not being allowed to ignore things which are useless.

Treat a person as they are, they will remain so. Treat a person the way that person can be and is capable of being and that person will become as he or she can be and should be.