Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

Things that matter the most must never be at the mercy of those that matter the least.

Basic characteristics of an individual organism: to divide, to unite, to merge into the universal, to abide in the particular, to transform itself, to define itself, and as living things tend to appear under a thousand conditions, to arise and vanish, to solidify and melt, to freeze and flow, to expand and contract. Since these effects occur together, any or all may occur at the same moment.

True observers of nature, although they may think differently, will still agree that everything that is, everything that is observable as a phenomenon, can only exhibit itself in one of two ways. It is either a primal polarity that is able to unify, or it is a primal unity that is able to divide. The operation of nature consists of splitting the united or uniting the divided; this is the eternal movement of systole and diastole of the heartbeat, the inhalation and exhalation of the world in which we live, act, and exist."

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

“What is uttered from the heart alone, Will win the hearts of others to your own.”

Treat people as if they were what they should be, and you help them become what they are capable of becoming.

The best that mankind ever knew:  
Freedom and life are earned by those alone  
Who conquer them each day anew.

The greatest evil that can befall man is that he should come to think ill of himself.

Few people have the imagination for reality.