There are two things parents should give their children roots and wings. Roots to give them bearing and a sense of belonging, but also wings to help free them from constraints and prejudices and give them other ways to travel (or rather, to fly).

In politics as on a sickbed men toss from side to side in hope of lying more comfortably.

The best way to understand a painting is by drawing it.

The hardest thing is to see what's under your very eyes.

Ill-humor is nothing more than an inward feeling of our own want of merit, a dissatisfaction with ourselves which is always united with an envy that foolish vanity excites.

Then to the depths! - I could as well say height: It's all the same.

The day is for mistake and error, sequence of time for success and carrying out. The one who anticipates is master of the day.