Johann Goethe

"Music is liquid architecture; architecture is frozen music."

"The eternal feminine draws us upward and forward."

"Nothing is worth more than this day."

"Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for."

"The man of genius knows what he is doing; the man of talent does not."

"If you want to mature, you must accept pain as the price of admission."

"You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step."

"The greatest joy a human can experience is friendship."

"To live is to war against trolls in the vault of your heart and brain."

"Men are easily satisfied with a few kindnesses, and easily offended by many unkindnesses."

"Leave nothing for tomorrow which can be done today."

"In order that people be happy in their work, these three things are needed: they must be fit for it, they must not do too much of it, and they must succeed in it."

"As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live."

"Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns."

"There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt."

"A man must have his pride, but not toward God."

"Kind words are a creative force, a power that produces real effects."

"Let everyone sweep in front of his own door and the whole world will be clean."

"Only by joy and love is life enjoyed."

"The beautiful is not determined by mass and quantity, but by proportion and harmony."

"Take a misanthrope and improve him with a gift of gold, and at once he will beg for honors."

"The wound is the place where the Light enters you."

"Life belongs only to the great and bold."

"A master says not 'I have never found'; a master says 'I have not sought.'"

"Errors are the portals of discovery."

"The beautiful thing about learning is that it cannot be taken away from you."

"Character is destiny."

"As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality."

"Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language and forthwith it is something entirely different."

"Creativity is intelligence having fun."