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.

I often think of you all, one cannot do what one wants in life. The more you feel attached to a spot, the more ruthlessly you are compelled to leave it, but the memories remain, and one remembers - as in a looking glass, darkly - one's absent friends.

Let’s not forget that the little emotions are the great captains of our lives and we obey them without realizing it.

God sends us pieces of art so that we may see ourselves in them

I am seeking, I am striving, I am in it with all my heart.

Drawing is the root of everything.

... life is too short to do the whole.