“The only athletic sport I ever mastered was backgammon.”

“Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.”

“There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.”

“The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.”

“We work in the dark - we do what we can - we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.”

“Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of; they just turn up some of the ill weeds on to the surface”