The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.

The secret of life is to appreciate the pleasure of being terribly deceived

I sometimes think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability

Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.

Every impulse we strangle will only poison us.

The mark of all good art is not that the thing done is done exactly or finely, for machinery may do as much, but that it is worked out with the head and the workman's heart.