If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.
Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.
Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it.
What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.
Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.
We stopped in the unimaginable softness (293).
You’d never care to plant some roots in society, I suppose,” mused the other.
I'm the golden eternity in mortal animate form.
Behaviour is a mirror in which every one displays his own image.
Wer fremde Sprachen nicht kennt, weiß nichts von seiner eigenen.
Be in love with your life. Every detail of it.
Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing.
A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.
What is a rainbow, lord? A hoop for the lowly.
The life of the arts is a test of the quality of a nation's civilization.
A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself; it is a child of solitude.
It's impossible to fall of mountains you fool!
On top of the world, or in the depths of despair.
I am not omniscient, but I know a lot.
They Never Asked, I Kept Offering.
The deed is everything; the fame is nothing.
Everything is all right forever and forever and forever.
Do not hurry; do not rest.
How often do I lull my seething blood to rest, for you have never seen anything so unsteady, so uncertain, as this heart.