“Don't bow down to critics who have not themselves written great masterpieces.”

“Great books write themselves, only bad books have to be written.”

“Every living thing is a masterpiece, written by nature and edited by evolution.”

“It is an immortal masterpiece. Anybody and everybody today would, I should say, give the rest of their lives to have written it. Anyway I would.”

“Try to grasp the essence of what the great artists, the serious masters, say in their masterpieces, and you will again find God in them. One man has written or said it in a book, another in a painting.”

“If we only have love
We will never bow down”

“If we only have love
We will never bow down”

“More than all the thoughts and feelings I have written down. I don't pretend to be a poet. I feel happy enough when someone is willing to read what I have written.”

“Nature's great masterpiece, an elephant;
the only harmless great thing.”

“The great and glorious masterpiece of man is to live with purpose.”