Johann Wolfgang Goethe

"Be bold and mighty forces will come to your aid."

"All the diversity, all the charm, and all the beauty of life are made up of light and shade."

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

"What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?"

"Employ every moment well and you will succeed."

"The seed is lost in the growing of the plant."

"Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back."

"Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being."

"In all things, nothing is to be feared if we understand them."

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

"The greatest thing a human soul ever does is to see something and tell what it saw in plain speech."

"Delay is the deadliest form of denial."

"He who has a why to live can bear with almost any how."

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

"The person who gets the farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare."

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

"Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another."

"The highest principle for being happy is the love of something external to yourself."

"There is a courtesy in knowing when a conversation can lead nowhere."

"The more we study nature and examine what we understand, the more we recognize our place within it."

"Everything is hard before it is easy."

"The infinite and eternal are not products of thought."

"If you wish to be happy, do not occupy yourself with other people's affairs."

"The man who always knows the best thing to do is insufferable to his friends."

"It is the privilege of wisdom to listen."

"Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children."

"The man who pursues humanity must forever wear his heart on his sleeve."

"We don't care how much a person knows until we know how much a person cares."

"The eye is simple; the eye cannot lie; it only sees what is."

"No one can travel so far as he who knows not where he goes."