Look at life with the eyes of a child.

There are moments on most days when I feel a deep and sincere gratitude, when I sit at the open window, and there is a blue sky or moving clouds.

When Michelangelo was an old man, he drew himself sitting in a child's pushcart.

Pacifism simply is not a matter of calm looking on; it is work, hard work.

It seems to me nowadays that the most important task for someone who is aging is to spread love and warmth whenever possible.

Men without joy seem like corpses.

I have never been able to carry out any work coolly. On the contrary it is done, so to speak, with my own blood. Anyone who looks at my works must be able to sense that.