"The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life."

"The past is not dead. In fact, it's not even past."

"Don't try to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself."

"All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible."

"The artist doesn't have time to listen to the critics. The ones who want to be writers read the reviews, the ones who want to write don't have the time to read reviews."

"Time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life."

"The vast possibilities of our great future will become realities only if we make ourselves responsible for that future."

"Our duty is to encourage every one in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the Truth."

"The only real training for leadership is leadership."

"Do something every day that you don't want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain."

"I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly."

"One of the things that has helped me as much as any other, is not how long I am going to live, but how much I can do while living."