"Do not do what someone else could do as well as you. Do not say, do not write what someone else could say, could write as well as you. Care for nothing in yourself but what you feel exists nowhere else. And, out of yourself create, impatiently or patiently, the most irreplaceable of beings."
"Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason."
"Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor."
"The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity."
"He who wants a rose must respect her thorn."
"Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore."