He who moves not forward, goes backward.

This being busied with thoughts of immortality is for the noble classes and especially for women with nothing to do. A solid person, though, someone who already intends to be something worthy here, and who therefore has to strive daily, has to struggle and work, gives the world to come a rest.

He who has a task to perform must know how to take sides, or he is quite unworthy of it.

The worst is that the very hardest thinking will not bring thoughts. They must come like good children of God and cry, "Here we are." You expend effort and energy thinking hard. Then, after you have given up, they come sauntering in with their hands in their pockets. If the effort had not been made to open the door, however, who knows when they could have come.

Whoever aspiring, struggles on, for him there is salvation.

Everything is simpler than you think and at the same time more complex than you imagine

Duty is the demand of the hour.