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.

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.

But you people do not understand me, and I am afraid you never will.

It is looking at things for a long time that ripens you and gives you a deeper meaning.

To express a marriage of two complementary colors, their mingling and their opposition, the mysterious vibrations of kindred tones.

Do you know what makes the prison disappear? Every deep, genuine affection. Being friends, being brothers, loving, that is what opens the prison, with supreme power, by some magic force. Without these one stays dead. But whenever affection is revived, there life revives.

If one feels the need of something grand, something infinite, something that makes one feel aware of God, one need not go far to find it.