What am I then...? Everything that I have seen, heard, and observed I have collected and exploited. My works have been nourished by countless different individuals, by innocent and wise ones, people of intelligence and dunces. Childhood, maturity and old age all have brought me their thoughts....their perspectives on life. I have often reaped what others have sowed. My work is the work of a collective being that bears the name Goethe.

What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.

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

To be pleased with one's limits is a wretched state.

The moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. Whatever you think you can do, or believe you can do, begin it. Action has magic, power and grace.

Everything has been thought of before, but the problem is to think of it again.

I am the Spirit that denies.