Be reverent before the dawning day. Do not think of what will be in a year, or in ten years. Think of to-day.

Everything is music for the born musician.

I know at last what distinguishes man from animals; financial worries.

If a man is to shed the light of the sun upon other men, he must first of all have it within himself.

Most men are essentially dead by thirty.

Any man who is really a man must learn to be alone in the midst of others, to think alone for others, and, if necessary, against others.

The more a man lives, the more a man creates, the more a man loves and loses those whom he loves, the more does he escape from death. With every new blow that we have to bear, with every new work that we round and finish, we escape from ourselves, we escape into the work we have created, the soul we have loved, the soul that has left us.