Human life, old and young, takes place between hope and remembrance. The young man sees all the gates to his desires open, and the old man remembers--his hopes.

How can you say that love is blind? Keener than a young eagle's is its sight.

Let no one say that taking action is hard. Action is aided by courage, by the moment, by impulse, and the hardest thing in the world is making a decision.

What raises great poetry above all else--it is the entire person and also the entire world.

Who could deny that our Austria is richer than any other country? As the saying goes: "We have money like manure.

Never expect any recognition here--the system prohibits it. The cross is not affixed to the genius, no, the genius is affixed to the cross.

North and West have always vied for power and territory, but their recent competition as to which one is more insidious of the twohas been more peaceful.