Learn to differentiate between ignorance and stupidity.

As it was, we always misunderstood ourselves and rarely understood others. Experience was of no ethical value. It was merely the name men gave to their mistakes.

Sins of the flesh are nothing. They are maladies for physicians to cure, if they should be cured. Sins of the soul alone are shameful.

I see the moon like a clipped piece of silver. Like gilded bees the stars cluster round her.

There is no country in the world where machinery is so lovely as in America.

While one should always study the method of a great artist, one should never imitate his manner. The manner of an artist is essentially individual, the method of an artist is absolutely universal. The first personality, which no one should copy.

It's not hard to get the ideas when they come. They just come... it's painful waiting for them.