The maintenance of self-esteem is a continuous task that taxes all of the individual's power and inner resources. We have to prove our worth and justify our existence anew each day.

If I tell you I'm good, probably you will say I'm boasting. But if I tell you I'm not good, you'll know I'm lying.

Life itself is your teacher, and you are in a state of constant learning.

Education consists in cultivation of intelligence.

Through art our own souls are what we must employ to give a new form and a new meaning to Nature or the world.

To refuse to be cast down, that is the lesson.

Most people can talk without listening. Very few can listen without talking. It is very rare that people can talk and listen.