“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”

Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.

Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.

I can’t expect others to share my virtues. It’s good enough for me if they share my vices.

But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits.

God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.

Every instant of our lives is essentially irreplaceable: you must know this in order to concentrate on life.

I wished for nothing beyond her smile, and to walk with her thus, hand in hand, along a sun warmed, flower bordered path.

There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.

The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.

Only fools don’t contradict themselves.

Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.

Prejudices are the props of civilization.

Wisdom comes not from reason but from love.

Art begins with resistance – at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.

Please do not understand me too quickly.

Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.

Look closer and you’ll see something extraordinary, mystifying, something real and true. We have never been what we seemed.

Where are we really going? Always home.

O’er Ocean, with a thousand masts, sails forth the stripling bold- One boat, hard rescued from the deep, draws into port the old!

That which is so universal as death must be a benefit.

Width of life is more important than length of life.

The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.

We are near awakening when we dream that we dream.

Deeper meaning resides in the fairy tales told to me in my childhood than in the truth that is taught by life.