Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

"There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings."

"The way you see people is the way you treat them and the way you treat them is what they become."

"Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak a few sensible words."

"Ohne Hast, aber ohne Rast. - Without haste, but without rest."

"Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it!"

"The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality."

"Truth has to be repeated constantly, because Error also is being preached all the time, and not just by a few, but by the multitude. In the Press and Encyclopaedias, in Schools and Universities, everywhere Error holds sway, feeling happy and comfortable in the knowledge of having Majority on its side."

"If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be."

"What is important in life is life, and not the result of life."

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

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

"Nothing is worth more than this day."

"The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers & cities; but to know someone who thinks & feels with us, & who, though distant, is close to us in spirit, this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden."

"Let mental culture go on advancing, let the natural sciences progress in even greater extent and depth, and the human mind widen itself as much as it desires: beyond the elevation and moral culture of Christianity, as it shines forth in the Gospels, it will not go."

"Es ist nicht genug, zu wissen, man muß auch anwenden; es ist nicht genug, zu wollen, man muß auch tun."

"At the moment of commitment the entire universe conspires to assist you."

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

"It is after all the greatest art to limit and isolate oneself."

"Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds."