There are often beams in our eye that we know not of. Let us therefore ask that our eye may become single, for then we ourselves shall become wholly single.

There is peace even in the storm

The heart of man is very much like the sea, it has its storms, it has its tides and in its depths it has its pearls too

To suffer without complaint is the only lesson we have to learn in this life

Seek only light and freedom and do not immerse yourself too deeply in the worldly mire.

Don't lose heart if it's very difficult at times, everything will come out all right and nobody can in the beginning do as he wishes.

And the memories of all we have loved stay and come back to us in the evening of our life. They are not dead but sleep, and it is well to gather a treasure of them.

What is drawing? How does one learn it? It is working through an invisible iron wall that seems to stand between what one feels and what one can do.

I can very well do without God both in my life and in my painting, but I cannot, suffering as I am, do without something which is greater than I, which is my life, the power to create.

One day My father taught me a ‎lesson "never compete with someone who sold the world for his ‎dream"... I have learned the lesson and decided to be this one so, no one can compete with me.

Psychology ideally means giving soul to language and finding language for soul.

Daisy, simple and discreet flower, That earned the heart of this poet.

The German-French friendship is indispensable for Europe. And I will never let myself be carried away to making statements that would change it.

I will find any excuse to go into somebody's study or ask them what they are reading. I can't think of too many other things that say what goes on in someone's head than the books they have.

If we look to the history of other nations, ancient or modern, we find no example of a growth so rapid, so gigantic, of a people so prosperous and happy.

All good things in life are fragile and easily lost

There the wild animals wandered and fed as though they were in a pasture that stretched much farther than a man could see, and there were no settlers. Only Indians lived there.

Our people shall be free

Always question the authority.