The highest cannot be spoken; it can only be acted.

The destiny of any nation at any given time depends on the opinion of its young people, those under twenty-five.

It is not enough to take steps which may someday lead to a goal; each step must be itself a goal and a step likewise.

The most damaging prejudice consists of banning any kind of investigation of nature.

Confronted by outstanding merit, there is no way of saving one's ego except by love

Every reader, if he has a strong mind, reads himself into the book, and amalgamates his thoughts with those of the author.

The misery that oppresses you lies not in your profession but in yourself! What man in the world would not find his situation intolerable if he chooses a craft, an art, indeed any form of life, without experiencing an inner calling? Whoever is born with a talent, or to a talent, must surely find in that the most pleasing of occupations! Everything on this earth has its difficult sides! Only some inner drive - pleasure, love - can help us overcome obstacles, prepare a path, and lift as out of the narrow circle in which others tread out their anguished, miserable existences!