One must work and dare if one really wants to live.

I often think of you all, one cannot do what one wants in life. The more you feel attached to a spot, the more ruthlessly you are compelled to leave it, but the memories remain, and one remembers - as in a looking glass, darkly - one's absent friends.

To stick to the present and not let it pass without drawing some profit from it, that's what I think duty is. ...let us perservere as far as we can rather today than tomorrow.

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

But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

Everyone who works with love and with intelligence finds in the very sincerity of his love for nature and art a kind of armor against the opinions of other people.

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