We are shaped and fashioned by what we love
The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.
Of the truly creative no one is ever master; it must be left to go its own way.
Our passions are the true phoenixes; when the old one is burnt out, a new one rises from its ashes.
To make something you have to be something.
Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.
Sometimes our fate resembles a fruit tree in winter. Who would think that those branches would turn green again and blossom, but we hope it, we know it.
The more one knows, the more one comprehends, the more one realizes that everything turns in a circle.
In comradeship is danger countered best.
Certain defects are necessary for the existence of individuality.
Willing is not enough, we must do.
Hope enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.
The coward only threatens when he is safe.
The important thing in life is to have a great aim, and the determination to attain it.
Quite often, as life goes on, when we feel completely secure as we go on our way, we suddenly notice that we are trapped in error, that we have allowed ourselves to be taken in by individuals, by objects, have dreamt up an affinity with them which immediately vanishes before our waking eye; and yet we cannot tear ourselves away, held fast by some power that seems incomprehensible to us. Sometimes, however, we become fully aware and realize that error as well as truth can move and spur us on to action.
Care is taken that trees do not grow into the sky.
To be pleased with one's limits is a wretched state.
By seeking and blundering we learn.
The really unhappy person is the one who leaves undone what they can do, and starts doing what they don't understand; no wonder they come to grief.
Mere curiosity adds wings to every step.
A man's foibles are what makes him lovable.
Choose well. Your choice is brief, and yet endless.
It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it.
There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings.
To measure up to all that is demanded of him, a man must overestimate his capacities
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