A teacher as a person is more important than a teacher as a technician. What he is has more effect than anything he does.

Thehardest step is over the threshold.

Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but bystriking true.

People say law but they mean wealth.

The flowers of life are but illusions. How many fade away and leave no trace; how few yield any fruit and the fruit itself how rarely does it ripen!

The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mould of the body and mind entire.

When regard for truth has been broken down or evenslightly weakened, all things will remain doubtful.

Any child who has parents who are interested in him and has a house full of books isin't poor.

Peopleshould talk less and draw more. Personally, I would like to renounce speechaltogether and, like organic nature, communicate everything I have to sayvisually.

Weagree completely on everything, including the fact we don't see eye to eye.

I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men toabstain from threats and insulting words toward an enemy, for neither ...diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious,and the other increases his hatred of you and makes him

Itmatters not whether you win or lose; what matters is whether I win or lose.