Johann Wolfgang von 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."

"There is nothing to fear but fear itself."

"If you would create something, you must be something."

"The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places."

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

"The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something."

"One cannot direct the wind, but one can adjust the sails."

"A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart."

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

"The fairest wish of my heart is to be useful to the world."

"Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate."

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

"My intention is not to entertain but to awaken."

"He who looks outward dreams, but he who looks inward awakens."

"The decline of literature indicates the decline of the nation."

"Talent is formed in quiet, character in the full current of human life."

"Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design into the present."

"A useless life is an early death."

"The greatest respect an artist can pay to public opinion is to avoid it."

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

"Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others and in their pleasure takes joy."

"Difficulties increase the nearer we come to the goal."

"Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing."

"The beautiful unites with the useful."

"We are shaped and fashioned by what we love."

"If I love you, what business is it of yours?"

"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts."

"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever."

"The highest happiness of man is to have probed what is knowable and to quietly revere what is unknowable."