The artist produces for the liberation of his soul. It is his nature to create as it is the nature of water to run down the hill.

The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.

Self-control might be as passionate and as active as the surrender to passion.

Throw yourself into the hurly-burly of life. It doesn't matter how many mistakes you make, what unhappiness you have to undergo. It is all your material ... Don't wait for experience to come to you; go out after experience. Experience is your material.

We learn resignation not by our own suffering, but by the suffering of others.

Only mediocre people are at the best all the time.

Considering how foolishly people act and how pleasantly they prattle, perhaps it would be better for the world if they talked more and did less.