“You are free to do what you want, but you are not free to want what you want.”

“Life is given only once, and one wants to live it boldly, with full conscious and beauty.”

“Lord, protect me from what I want!”

“I am my own muse. I am the subject I know best. The subject I want to better.”

“I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can't see from the center.”

“Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.”

“In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.”