As to the value of conversions, God alone can judge. God alone can know how wide are the steps which the soul has to take before it can approach to a community with Him, to the dwelling of the perfect, or to the intercourse and friendship of higher natures.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheIgnorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheThe way you see people is the way you treat them, and the way you treat them is what they become.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheBeware of wishing for anything in youth, because you will get it in middle age.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheIn every artist there is a touch of audacity without which no talent is conceivable.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheI have come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element. It is my personal approach that creates the climate. It is my daily mood that makes the weather....In all situations, it is my response that decides whether a crisis is escalated or de-escalated, and a person is humanized or is dehumanized.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe