Chance arrives unannounced. It emerges, and when it leaves, we are lucky if the changes it has produced are only external.

No shortcomings of other people cause us to be more intolerant than those which are caricatures of our own.

A flutist who is moved to tears by his own performance will soon make the listeners laugh because of the sounds that he produces.

It is open to question whether the highly individualized characters we find in Shakespeare are perhaps not detrimental to the dramatic effect. The human being disappears to the same degree as the individual emerges.

Mankind is getting smarter every day. Actually, it only seems so. At least we are making progress. We're progressing, to be sure, ever more deeply into the forest.

Drink and be thankful to the host! What seems insignificant when you have it, is important when you need it.

It is good insofar as it is not evil.