There is no past we can bring back by longing for it. There is only an eternal now that builds and creates out of the past something new and better.

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

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!

Sceptics are yet the most credulous.

Toleration ought in reality to be merely a transitory mood. It must lead to recognition. To tolerate is to affront.

All truths are old, and all that we have to do is recognize and utter them anew.

In art it's not the thinking that does the job, but making.