Johann Goethe

"The height of cleverness is to be able to conceal it."

"Do not indulge in dreams of having what you have not, but reckon up how much you already have and how much you enjoy it."

"The task is not so much to see what no one has yet seen, but to think what nobody has yet thought."

"Language is the key that opens a thousand doors."

"The greatest respect an artist can pay to the public is not to talk down, and not to take them for granted."

"Everything is only for a day, both that which remembers and that which is remembered."

"I have come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element. It is my personal approach that creates the climate."

"To the wise, life is a problem; to the fool, a solution."

"Death is nature's way of saying hello."

"There is no greater delight than in understanding something new."

"The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones."

"A work can become immortal if it is capable of endless interpretation."

"Truth is like a torch held aloft in the fog and darkness of our time."

"The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness."

"There is no greater torment than the thoughts of the mind that are kept to itself."

"People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances."

"Every moment in business is a chance to exchange value."

"The important thing is not to stop questioning."

"Everyone wants to understand painting, but why does anyone want to understand the song of a bird?"

"When love is gone, there is always justice."

"Nature repeats itself on a thousand different scales."

"All things are poisons; the dose determines whether a poison is medicine."

"You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him."

"Everything is gestation and then birth. To get anywhere you have to do everything normally, ordinarily, slowly."

"The way out is through."

"Freedom is not given but taken."

"The best way to honor a great man is to learn what he taught and go beyond it."

"A man's manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait."

"The greatest inventions occur when we are freed from the bounds of authority."

"Strength grows in the moments when you think you can't go on but you keep going anyway."