I must consider more closely this cycle of good and bad days which I find coursing within myself. Passion, attachment, the urge to action, inventiveness, performance, order all alternate and keep their orbit; cheerfulness, vigor, energy, flexibility and fatigue, serenity as well as desire. Nothing disturbs the cycle for I lead a simple life, but I must still find the time and order in which I rotate.

A talent is formed in stillness, a character in the world's torrent.

Many hammer all over the wall and believe that with each blow they hit the nail on the head.

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

You are, when all is done-just what you are.

Whoever strenuously endeavors, him we can rescue.

I have often reaped what others have sowed. My work is the work of a collective being that bears the name Goethe.