If God were suddenly condemned to live the life which He has inflicted upon men, He would kill Himself.
Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.
How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
It is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a fourth class person in a first class job.
Infatuated, half through conceit, half through love of my art, I achieve the impossible working as no one else ever works.
It is rare that one can see in a little boy the promise of a man, but one can almost always see in a little girl the threat of a woman.
A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.
