„Teach thy tongue to say, “I do not know,” and thous shalt progress.”

Ideals are an imaginative understanding of that which is desirable in that which is possible.

I will be my own miracle.

Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.

It is on our failures that we base a new and different and better success.

Be yourself. Everyone else is already taken.

Life is so horrible that one can only bear it by avoiding it. And that can be done by living in the world of art.