“Time is not measured by the passing of years but by what one does, what one feels, and what one achieves.”

“It is so many years before one can believe enough in what one feels even to know what the feeling is”

“It is not only by one's impulses that one achieves greatness, but also by patiently filing away the steel wall that separates what one feels from what one is capable of doing.”

“One does what one is; one becomes what one does.”

“What one man does is something done, in some measure, by all men.”

“What one does in one's art, that is the breath of one's being. What one does in one's life, that is a bagatelle for the outsiders to fuss about.”

“What one does is what counts. Not what one had the intention of doing.”

“What matters in politics above all, is not what one says, but what one does.”

“One does simply what one can in order to apply what one knows.”

“What is this enigmatic impulse that does not allow one to settle down in the achieved, the finished? I think it is a quest for reality.”