For loneliness, worries, difficulties, the unsatisfied need for kindness and sympathy - that is what is hard to bear.

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

If one wants to be active, one must not be afraid of going wrong, one must not be afraid of making mistakes now and then. Many people think that they will become good just by doing no harm -- but that's a lie.... That way lies stagnation, mediocrity.

That this awareness of my own fallibility will prevent me from making many mistakes doesn't alter the fact that I'm bound to make a great many mistakes anyway. But if we fall, we get up again!

But by fighting the difficulties in which one finds oneself, an inner strength develops from within our heart, which improves in life's fight.

There is peace even in the storm

I assure you that there's a lot involved in compositions with figures. ... It's like weaving... you must control and keep an eye on several things at once.