Energy will do anything that can be done in the world; and no talents, no circumstances, no opportunities will make a two-legged animal a man without it.

The Bible grows more beautiful, as we grow in our understanding of it.

The greatest difficulties lie where we are not looking for them.

You will find the most pronounced hatred of other nations on the lowest cultural levels. There is, though, a level where the hatred disappears completely and where one so to speak stands above the nations and where one experiences fortune or misfortune of a neighboring country as if they had happened to one's own.

There are people who pay attention to the weaknesses of their friends; that is to no avail. I have always closely watched and profited from the strengths of my adversaries.

Life is too short to drink bad wine.

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