“In the 19th century, you had bourgeois art without politics - an almost frozen idea of what beauty is.”

“The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is.”

“There are only two ways to live your life: as though nothing is a miracle, or as though everything is a miracle.”

“The moral of the tale is, don't live for the approval of others. The real you is here to find out the secret of life, not to satisfy someone else's opinion.”

“One must not trifle with love.”

“Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.”

“In science, we must be interested in things, not in persons.”

“A voracious gambler does not gamble until he wins, but until he loses everything, and a smart one knows when to quit.”