Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

"One should as a ruler of one's own reason never capitulate to the senses and instincts alone."

"In art the best is good enough."

"The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers and cities; but to know someone here and there who thinks the same as you do..."

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

"Talent develops in quiet places, character in the full current of human life."

"The person of clear head sees all the relations of things."

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

"One cannot always build the future for youth, but one can build youth for the future."

"My wishes are very simple - I want to be a happy person."

"Self-knowledge comes from observing the actions of oneself."

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

"Who is a maker of sentences should be touched not only in his brain, but in his heart also."

"Truth belongs to the man who has eyes to see it."

"Generosity is another quality which, like frequency of intercourse, promotes friendship."

"I am not at all in a humorous mood."

"The man who never made a mistake never tried anything new."

"It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness."

"The deed is everything."

"What you have inherited from your fathers, earn it anew if you would possess it."

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

"Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow."

"Everything that happens once can never happen again. But everything that happens twice will surely happen a third time."

"The beautiful unites with the useful."

"Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world."

"If a man is to move mountains, he must believe he can."

"Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius."

"The Germans are a fascinating people."

"When we treat people merely as they are, we make them worse. When we treat them as if they were what they should be, we make them what they can be."

"In all things it is best to hope for the best and prepare for the worst."