Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

"Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language."

"If you want to know yourself, observe how others react to you."

"The beautiful is always good in any case."

"There is a delicate balance in what we choose to remember and what we choose to forget."

"One must be poor to know the luxury of giving."

"Die geilste Stunde ist die Gegenwart - The sweetest hour is the present."

"The height of cultivation runs to meet the height of nature."

"When ideas fail, words come in very handy."

"Character is developed in the stream of life."

"I am ever not loath, in my practice, to sacrifice beauty for truth."

"There are nine-and-sixty ways of constructing tribal lays, and every single one of them is right."

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

"Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes."

"The man of genius is he and only he who finds what he seeks."

"Light is mixed with darkness for us mortals."

"Reason can never go beyond experience."

"We teach others by example, whether or not we intend to do so."

"All things are symptoms of a cosmic order."

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

"One can always tell an actor by the gleam in his eyes."

"If you act, you will have power."

"The mind grows by what it feeds upon."

"He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth."

"There are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in your philosophy."

"The decline of a nation begins in the homes of its people."

"One learns by example and by direct experience because there are truths the intellect will not reach."

"There is strong shadow where there is much light."

"Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it."

"Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration."