All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.
Sometimes you can't see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others.
He attacked everything in life with a mix of extrordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.
Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb.
I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand.
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
We are always in search of the redeeming formula, the crystallizing thought.