I have come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element. It is my personal approach that creates the climate.

What is the freedom of the most free? To do what is right!

When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.

Whether one show one's self a man of genius in science or compose a song, the only point is, whether the thought, the discovery, the deed, is living and can live on.

What is not fully understood is not possessed.

This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.

Wine rejoices the heart of man and joy is the mother of all virtues.