to express himself well, the artist should be hidden. . . The trouble is that if an artist knows he has genius, he's done for. The only salvation is to work like a labourer, and not have delusions of grandeur.
Time is round, and it rolls quickly.
I hope for nothing. I fear nothing. I am free.
All my life one of my greatest desires has been to travel-to see and touch unknown countries, to swim in unknown seas, to circle the globe, observing new lands, seas, people, and ideas with insatiable appetite, to see everything for the first time and for the last time, casting a slow, prolonged glance, then to close my eyes and feel the riches deposit themselves inside me calmly or stormily according to their pleasure, until time passes them at last through its fine sieve, straining the quintessence out of all the joys and sorrows.
What is love? It is not simply compassion, not simply kindness. In compassion there are two: the one who suffers and the one who feels compassion. In kindness there are two: the one who gives and the one who receives. But in love there is only one; the two join, unite, become inseparable. The I and the you vanish. To love means to lose oneself in the beloved.
My soul comes from better worlds and I have an incurable homesickness of the stars.
The only thing I know is this: I am full of wounds and still standing on my feet.
May the Lord bless you real good.
Dealing with people is probably the biggest problem you face, especially if you are in business. Yes, and that is also true if you are a housewife, architect or engineer.
Get to know the real you, rather than try to look like or dress like those around you.
A too constant preoccupation with money may seem to indicate the lack of a proper sense of moral values, but [let] those who have always had money. . . be without it for a while, and they will soon discover how quickly it becomes their chief concern.