What molting time is to birds, so adversity or misfortune is ... for us humans.

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.

My sketchbook is a witness of what I am experiencing, scribbling things whenever they happen.

Someday death will take us to another star.

I've never felt a desire (and I don't believe I ever shall) to bring the public to my work... a certain popularity seems to me the least desirable of things.

Man is not on the earth solely for his own happiness. He is there to realize great things for humanity.

The great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together. And great things are not something accidental, but must certainly be willed.