“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.”

Dont wait for miracles. Your whole life is a miracle.

There are two means of refuge from the misery of life — music and cats.

All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.

Sorrowful and great is the artist's destiny.

“He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.”

Religion is the truth in metaphorical dress, philosophy is the truth itself.