“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.”

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.

A small spark can start a great fire.

We are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided.

Ask yourself the secret of your success. Listen to your answer, and practice it.

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.

Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.