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.

On all the peaks lies peace.

The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Don't judge anyone harshly until you yourself have been through his experiences

People can only live with their equals, and not even with them; for in the long run they cannot tolerate that someone is their equal.

Sometimes I don't understand how another can love her, is allowed to love her, since I love her so completely myself, so intensely, so fully, grasp nothing, know nothing, have nothing but her!

What is my life if I am no longer useful to others.