The only thing to do is to go one's own way, to try one's best, to make the thing live.

When we are working at a difficult task and strive after a good thing, we are fighting a righteous battle, the direct reward of which is that we are kept from much evil.

In an artist's life, death is perhaps not the most difficult thing.

Christ is more of an artist than the artists; he works in the living spirit and the living flesh, he makes men instead of statues.

Someday death will take us to another star.

I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.

Both she and I have grief enough and trouble enough, but as for regrets – neither of us have any.