"The most decisive actions of our life - I mean those that are most likely to decide the whole course of our future - are, more often than not, unconsidered."

"So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity."

"One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time."

"Know thyself? A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever observes himself arrests his own development. A caterpillar who wanted to know itself well would never become a butterfly."

"Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better."

"One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time."

"No, 'tis slander, Whose edge is sharper than the sword, whose tongue Outvenoms all the worms of Nile, whose breath Rides on the posting winds, and doth belie All corners of the world."

"Easy enough to dismiss others' problems when you had none of your own."

"To each his own. (Suum Cuique)"

"Art is never finished, only abandoned."

"Any healthy man can go without food for two days - but not without poetry."

"We must approach religion with reverence and with love, and our heart will stand up and say, this is truth, and this is untruth."