If you would create something,you must be something. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

"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."

"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."

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

"In art the best is good enough."