“How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress.”
“An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a very narrow field.”
“Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.”
“Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.”
“If you board the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the opposite direction.”
“Musik ist die Vermittlerin zwischen dem geistigen und dem sinnlichen Leben.”
“Musik ist eine höhere Offenbarung als alle Weisheit und Philosophie.”
“Man kann mit einem Bajonett alles machen, aber man kann nicht darauf sitzen.”
“Die Politik ist die Lehre vom Möglichen.”
“Politics: a strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles.”
“Quotation: the act of repeating erroneously the words of another.”
“Love: a temporary insanity curable by marriage.”
“Earth's crammed with heaven, and every common bush afire with God; but only he who sees, takes off his shoes.”
“How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.”
“Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be.”
“Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for?”
“Better to be despised for too anxious apprehensions than ruined by too confident a security.”
“Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.”
“The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.”
“We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.”