Mannerism always wants to be finished and doesn't enjoy the process. Genuine, truly great talent, however, finds its greatest satisfaction in the production.

To make an epoch in the world, two conditions are manifestly essential-a good head and a great inheritance.

Colors are light's suffering and joy

I wait for the morning of my tears

If we take people only as they are, then we make them worse; if we treat them as if they were what they should be, then we bring them to where they can be brought.

You must either conquer and rule or serve and lose, suffer or triumph, be the anvil or the hammer.

Time does not relinquish its rights, either over human beings or over mountains.