“For the true meaning of life isn't determined by what you do for yourself, but by what you do for others”

“Sometimes they threaten you with something - something you can't stand up to, can't even think about. And then you say, "Don't do it to me, do it to somebody else, do it to So-and-so." And perhaps you might pretend, afterwards, that it was only a trick and that you just said it to make them stop and didn't mean it. But that isn't true. At the time when it happens you do mean it. You think there's no other way of saving yourself, and you're quite ready to save yourself that way. You WANT it to happen to the other person. You don't give a damn what they suffer. All you care is yourself.”

“Work is what you do for others, liebchen. Art is what you do for yourself.”

“Remember: What you do doesn't determine who you are; who you are determines what you do.”

“Ability is what you are capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.”

“Attach yourself to what is spiritually superior, regardless of what other people think or do. Hold to your true aspirations no matter what is going on around you.”