Our fathers had their dreams; we have ours; the generation that follows will have its own. Without dreams and phantoms man cannot exist.

the brain works better if the hand works too.

It is finer to bring one noble human being into the world and rear it well... than to kill ten thousand.

The secret of success is concentration ... Taste everything a little, look at everything a little; but live for one thing.

There's something so beautiful in coming on one's very inmost thoughts in another. In one way it is one of the greatest pleasures one has.

Soul, what have I to do with you?

Love, smoke and a cough cannot long be hid!