“The relation between what we see and what we know is never settled.”
“Love cannot be forced, love cannot be coaxed and teased. It comes out of heaven, unasked and unsought.”
“The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible — and achieve it, generation after generation.”
“Many people lose the small joys in the hope for the big happiness.”
“It is proof of a base and torpid mind to have made no observations of the works of nature.”
“There are innumerable suns and an infinite number of planets.”
“Cowardice is the worst of vices.”
“Manuscripts don't burn.”
“Der Erzähler nimmt, was er erzählt, aus Erfahrung.”
“Es ist niemals ein Dokument der Kultur, ohne zugleich ein solches der Barbarei zu sein.”
“Jump, and you will find out how to unfold your wings as you fall.”
“We are an impossibility in an impossible universe.”
“You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”
“The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.”
“Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.”
“Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.”
“Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work in hand.”
“Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.”
“When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.”
“There are trivial truths and great truths; the opposite of a great truth is also true.”