Joy is not in things; it is in us.

Everything lives and lasts by the inner necessity of its being, by its own nature's need.

I hate this fast growing tendency to chain men to machines in big factories and deprive them of all joy in their efforts - the plan will lead to cheap men and cheap products.

I am fond of them, of the inferior beings of the abyss, of those who are full of longing.

I can't distract myself enough here, for sketches to a new opera are constantly buzzing around in my head, to the extent that I need all my strength to wrest myself from them.

Imagination creates reality.

Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.

When I discover who I am, I’ll be free.

Sometimes it's more important to be human, than to have good taste.

I wish that all of nature's magnificence, the emotion of the land, the living energy of place could be photographed.

Life opens up opportunities to you, and you either take them or you stay afraid of taking them.

Learning is any change in a system that produces a more or less permanent change in its capacity for adapting to its environment.

When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.

Lives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us, footprints on the sands of time.

Life is a zoo in a jungle.