Johann Wolfgang Goethe

"Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it; boldness has genius, power and magic in it."

"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that very existence is an act of rebellion."

"If you would be a real seeker of truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things."

"Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do."

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

"The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it."

"He who seizes the right moment is the right man."

"There is nothing to fear except fear itself."

"One cannot always be a hero, but one can always be a man."

"Who looks outward dreams; who looks inward awakens."

"Talent is developed in privacy, character in the stream of the world."

"The beautiful is a manifestation of secret natural laws which would have been hidden from us forever without art."

"Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with all the club we can muster."

"It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves."

"A person sees in the world what they carry in their heart."

"The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing."

"Love does not dominate; it cultivates."

"Great souls suffer in silence."

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

"We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, we feel every quiver."

"Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men."

"The greatest respect an artist can pay to the public is to create nothing of compromise, to create nothing of mediocrity."

"Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow."

"Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect."

"There is nothing insignificant in the world. It all depends on the point of view."

"The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough."

"Generosity is the flower of justice."

"It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge."

"The beautiful unites with the good in a higher unity."

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