Battle not with monsters, for then you become one.

The artist who is not also a craftsman is no good; but, alas, most of our artists are nothing else.

I never believed in trying to do anything. Whatever I set out to do I found I had already accomplished.

Mastery is often taken for egotism.

A talent can be cultivated in tranquility; a character only in the rushing stream of life.

If you inquire what people are like here, I must answer, "The same as everywhere."

What a man does not understand, he does not possess.