The thing has already taken form in my mind before I start it. The first attempts are absolutely unbearable. I say this because I want you to know that if you see something worthwhile in what I am doing, it is not by accident but because of real direction and purpose.

I am always doing what I can't do yet in order to learn how to do it.

Someone has a great fire in his soul and nobody ever comes to warm themselves at it, and passers-by see nothing but a little smoke at the top of the chimney and then go on their way.

It astonishes me already when I compare my condition today with what it was a month ago. Before that I knew well enough one could fracture one's legs and arms and recover afterward, but I did not know that you could fracture the brain in your head and recover from that too.

But for one's health as you say, it is very necessary to work in the garden and see the flowers growing.

It is better to be high-spirited even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all too prudent.

The heart of man is very much like the sea, it has its storms, it has its tides and in its depths it has its pearls too