And when I read, and really I do not read so much, only a few authors, - a few men that I discovered by accident - I do this because they look at things in a broader, milder and more affectionate way than I do, and because they know life better, so that I can learn from them.

We feel lonely now and then and long for friends and think we should be quite different and happier if we found a friend of whom we might say: “He is the one.” But you, too, will begin to learn that there is much self-deception behind this longing; if we yielded too much to it, it would lead us from the road.

We must not judge God from this world. It's just a study that didn't come off. It's only a master who could make such a blunder.

I'll start with small things.

One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul, and yet no one ever comes to sit by it.

The great isn't something accidental; it must be willed.

I want to touch people with my art. I want them to say "he feels deeply, he feels tenderly".