One should arrive at leading one's conscience to a state of development so that it becomes the voice of a better and higher self, of which the ordinary self is a servant.

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.

Great things are not something accidental, but must certainly be willed.

I must continue to follow the path I take now. If I do nothing, if I study nothing, if I cease searching, then, woe is me, I am lost. That is how I look at it - keep going, keep going come what may.

For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.

Even this artistic life, which we know is not real life, appears to me to be so alive and so vital that it would be a form ingratitude not to be content with it.

There is peace even in the storm