To quote Johann Wolfgang von Goethe again and again and .....

"Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent."

"We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.”

“If you must tell me your opinions, tell me what you believe in. I have plenty of doubts of my own.”

“We usually lose today, because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.”

“Our senses don't deceive us: our judgment does”

“One never goes so far as when one doesn't know where one is going”

“Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago”

“Thought expands, but paralyzes; action animates, but narrows.”

“Hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture.”

 “If a good person does you wrong, act as though you had not noticed it. They will make note of this and not remain in your debt long.”

“When a wife has a good husband it is easily seen in her face.”

“Tell me with whom thou art found, and I will tell thee who thou art”

“Whoever wishes to keep a secret must hide the fact that he possesses one.”

“There is no past that we can bring back by longing for it. There is only an eternally new now that builds and creates itself out of the Best as the past withdraws.”

“For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him, he must regard himself as greater than he is”

“I don't know a greater advantage, than to appreciate the worth of an enemy.”

“He who does not expect a million readers should not write a line.”

 “He who cannot love must learn to flatter”

“Whatever you do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius and power and magic in it.”

“I think that I am better than the people who are trying to reform me.”

“Nothing is worth more than this day.”