“True elegance is recognized by the care one dedicates to others and by the way one chooses to act in life.”

“The worth is in the act. Your worth halts when you surrender your will to change and experience life. But options are before you; choose one and dedicate yourself to it. The deeds will give you a new hope and purpose.”

“True strength lies in submission which permits one to dedicate his life, through devotion, to something beyond himself.”

“Dedicate one’s life to truth.”
Vitam impendere vero.

“Thus he had a double thought: the one by which he acted as king, the other by which he recognized his true state, and that it was accident alone that had placed him in his present condition.”

“The thoughts we choose to act upon define us to others, the ones we do not define us to ourselves.”

“To get anywhere, one must choose one's mistakes, I chose experimental acts.”

“Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one.”

“There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.”

“My work always tried to unite the true with the beautiful; but when I had to choose one or the other, I usually chose the beautiful.”