All sects seem to me to be right in what they assert, and wrong in what they deny.

There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings.

Neither art thou the man to catch the fiend and hold him! [Ger., Du bist noch nicht der Mann den Teufel festzuhalten.

What by a straight path cannot be reached by crooked ways is never won.

Whatever is the lot of humankind I want to taste within my deepest self. I want to seize the highest and the lowest, to load its woe and bliss upon my breast, and thus expand my single self titanically and in the end go down with all the rest.

Know'st thou yesterday, its aim and reason? Work'st thou will today for worthier things? Then calmly wait the morrow's hidden season, And fear thou not, what hap soe'er it brings

If you've never eaten while crying you don t know what life tastes like.