The good critic is he who narrates the adventures of his soul among masterpieces.

To accomplish great things, we must not only act but also dream, not only plan, but also believe!

Until one has loved an animal a part of one's soul remains unawakened.

If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.

In its majestic equality, the law forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, beg in the streets and steal loaves of bread.

To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.

When a thing has been said and well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.

Stupidity is far more dangerous than evil, for evil takes a break from time to time, stupidity does not.

Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.

Religion has done love a great service by making it a sin.

Vengeance is sweet. Vengeance taken when the vengee isn't sure who the venger is, is sweeter still.

Among my stillness was a pounding heart.

Loneliness is painful. But suffering is not wrong in and of itself. It's part of the human experience, and in a way brings us closer to all people.

If we see our relationship to this planet in a wide perspective, one thing is clear: we belong to this planet, not the other way around.

...For the unquiet heart and brain, A use in measured language lies.

I have been drawing all my life.

I have been through the stages of disbelief and shock, to anger and ultimately grief over the loss of the family I so badly wanted for my children.

I admit I keep a clichéd ironic distance with many things in the world, but Brooklyn is not one of them.

The cross of the Legion of Honor has been conferred on me. However, few escape that distinction.

We ought as much to pray for a blessing upon our daily rod as upon our daily bread.