“If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you, if the simple things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive.”

“The weaker partner in a marriage is the one who loves the most.”

“To help, to continually help and share, that is the sum of all knowledge; that is the meaning of art.”

“The one happiness is to shut one's door upon a little room, with a table before one, and to create; to create life in that isolation from life.”

“If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you, if the simple things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive.”

“Work means so many things! So many! Among other things work also means freedom. ... Without it even the miracle of love is only a cruel deception.”

“I have the greatest of all riches: that of not desiring them.”