The most congenial social occasions are those ruled by cheerful deference of each for all.

By the artist's seizing any one object from nature, that object no longer is part of nature. One can go so far as to say that theartist creates the object in that very moment by emphasizing its significant, characteristic, and interesting aspects or, rather, by adding the higher values.

If your treat an individual... as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.

Of all peoples the Greeks have dreamt the dream of life best.

I have come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element. It is my personal approach that creates the climate. It is my daily mood that makes the weather....In all situations, it is my response that decides whether a crisis is escalated or de-escalated, and a person is humanized or is dehumanized.

The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.

How can you come to know yourself? Never by thinking, always by doing. Try to do your duty, and you'll know right away what you amount to.