Let life be beautiful like summer flowers and death be like autumn leaves. Rabindranath Tagore What a simple thing death is, just as simple as the falling of an autumn leaf.

For the great doesn't happen through impulse alone, and is a succession of little things that are brought together.

God sends us pieces of art so that we may see ourselves in them

One must never let the fire go out in one's soul, but keep it burning.

Art is but imitation of nature.

Doing little things well is a step toward doing big things better.

But on the road that I'm on I must continue; if I do nothing, if I don't study, if I don't keep on trying, then I'm lost, then woe betide me. That's how I see this, to keep on, keep on, that's what's needed.