What is all our knowledge worth? We do not even know what the weather will be tomorrow.

Years teach us more than books.

The little dissatisfaction which every artist feels at the completion of a work forms the germ of a new work.

To acquire money requires valor, to keep money requires prudence, and to spend money well is an art.

If you sound great in the practice room, you're practicing the wrong thing. Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

Only he is free who cultivates his own thoughts and strives without fear to do justice to them.

In Nature there is no dirt, everything is in the right condition; the swamp and the worm, as well as the grass and the bird,-all is there for itself.

Of all afflictions, the worst is self contempt.

Discontent is the source of all trouble,but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.

To harbor hatred and animosity in the soul makes one irritable, gloomy, and prematurely old.

The silver-leaved birch retains in its old age a soft bark; there are some such men.

How do you define a life of high personal worth and lasting success?

Lusty blacksmiths and naughty princesses. Now that's scary

In his creative work the artist is dependent on sources and resources deriving from the spiritual unconscious.

Donald's Trump entire campaign is a self-troll. It's very meta.

I've had too lengthy a career and coached too many players to make a choice.

oh mothers you will have made the little tykes so happy because if nobody does pick them up in the movies they won't know the difference and if somebody does it'll be sheer gravy

Suffering without understanding in this life is a heap worse than suffering when you have at least the grain of an idea what it's all for.

Good and bad men are each less so than they seem.

Man is born to live, to suffer, and to die, and what befalls him is a tragic lot. There is no denying this in the final end. But we must deny it all along the way.

Life without illusion is a ghostly affair.