“Money, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric.”

People should be beautiful in every way – in their faces, in the way they dress, in their thoughts, and in their innermost selves.

People don’t notice whether it’s winter or summer when they’re happy.

Even while lying, you’ll be believed if you speak with authority.

An artist observes, selects, guesses, and synthesizes.

Man is what he believes.

If there’s any illness for which people offer many remedies, you may be sure that particular illness is incurable, I think.

A good person will feel guilty even before a dog.

In nature a repulsive caterpillar turns into a lovely butterfly. But with human beings it is the other way round: a lovely butterfly turns into a repulsive caterpillar.

The teacher must be an actor, an artist,passionately in love with his work.

All saints have past and all sinners have a future.

If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry.

Lying is the same as alcoholism. Liars prevaricate even on their deathbeds.

There is something beautiful, touching and poetic when one person loves more than the other, and the other is indifferent.

You confuse two things: solving a problem and stating a problem correctly. It is only the second that is obligatory for an artist.

My holy of holies is the human body, health, intelligence, talent, inspiration, love, and absolute freedom–freedom from violence and falsehood, no matter how the last two manifest themselves.

Life is given only once, and one wants to live it boldly, with full conscious and beauty.