Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.

One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.

At the moment of commitment, the universe conspires to assist you.

If you’ve never eaten while crying, you don’t know what life tastes like.

Here I am human, here I am allowed to be so!

To be pleased with one's limits is a wretched state.

Only he deserves freedom and life who daily conquers them anew.

Science arose from poetry… when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends.

Love can do much, but duty more.

All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, until they take root in our personal experience.

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.

Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.

Too many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them.

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

When ideas fail, words come in very handy.

Live each day as if your life had just begun.

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

Correction does much, but encouragement does more.

He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.

The credit of advancing science has always been due to individuals and never to the age.

Age merely shows what children we remain.

Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same.

Many good qualities are not sufficient to balance a single want - the want of money.

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

All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green.

Writing is good, thinking is better. Cleverness is good, patience is better.

Learn to be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not.

You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.

Music is liquid architecture; Architecture is frozen music.

Everything is hard before it is easy.

A man is not little when he finds it difficult to cope with circumstances, but when circumstances overmaster him.

One always has time enough, if one will apply it well.