"If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be."
"Difficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal."
"He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth."
"The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality."
"To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods."
"The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it."