Hatred is a heavy burden. It sinks the heart deep in the breast, and lies like a tombstone on all joys.

A great artist... must be shaken by the naked truths that will not be comforted. This divine discontent, this disequilibrium, this state of inner tension is the source of artistic energy.

These auspicious aspects, which the astrologers subsequently interpreted for me, may have been the causes of my preservation.

One must be something to be able to do something.

The greatest genius will not be worth much if he pretends to draw exclusively from his own resources

Each indecision brings its own delays and days are lost lamenting over lost days... What you can do or think you can do, begin it. For boldness has magic, power, and genius in it.

Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.