Since I have heard often enough that everyone in the end has his own religion, nothing seemed more natural to me than to fashion my own.

One doesn't always lose when one has to do without.

We can't form our children on our own concepts; we must take them and love them as God gives them to us.

When translating one must proceed up to the intranslatable; only then one becomes aware of the foreign nation and the foreign tongue.

He who only tastes his error will long dwell with it, will take delight in it as in a singular felicity; while he who drains it to the dregs will, if he be not crazy, find it to be what it is.

Treat people the way they are and they will stay that way. Treat people the way they can become and they will become that way.

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