Can a sparrow know how a stork feels?

True art can only spring from the intimate linking of the serious and the playful.

The best genius is that which absorbs and assimilates everything without doing the least violence to its fundamental destiny.

Too many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them.

Yes, I have finally arrived to this Capital of the World! I now see all the dreams of my youth coming to life... Only in Rome is it possible to understand Rome.

One doesn't always lose when one has to do without.

The errors of the observer come from the qualities of the human mind.