To be sure, we have inherited abilities, but our development we owe to thousands of influences coming from the world around us from which we appropriate what we can and what is suitable to us.

Rejoice that you have still have a long time to live, before the thought comes to you that there is nothing more in the world to see.

Everything has been thought of before, but the problem is to think of it again.

Tolerance comes of age. I see no fault committed that I myself could not have committed at some time or other.

I am part of the part that once was everything, Part of the darkness which gave birth to light… Mephistopheles, from Faust.

Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is.

Mountains cannot be surmounted except by winding paths.