The art of acting presupposes three phases: understanding a part, intuiting a part, and contemplating the essence of a part.

The ramparts of Vienna are crumbling into the sand; no one wants to live so confined, however, the entire country is already surrounded by a Chinese wall!

The ideas of an age are most abundant where they are not crowded by original ideas.

Distinctly different as a child, as an adolescent, in his prime and in his old age, man considers himself as one, not because he acts, but because he knows.

Austrian soldiers are like horses: brave but easily frightened.

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

Do not push so fast ahead, do slow down a bit! Otherwise you won't catch up with yourselves.