"I think that little by little I'll be able to solve my problems and survive."

"I paint my own reality. The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my head without any other consideration."

"I hope the leaving is joyful; and I hope never to return."

"I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best"

"I drank to drown my pain, but the damned pain learned how to swim, and now I am overwhelmed by this decent and good behavior."

"I am not sick. I am broken. But I am happy as long as I can paint."

"It easeth some, though none it ever cured, to think their dolour others have endured."

"Every civilization that has ever existed has ultimately collapsed."

"A man can die but once."

"By constant self-discipline and self-control you can develop greatness of character."

"In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists."

"Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that's the stuff life is made of."