"Mastery is often taken for egotism...." - Quote by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

“There is nothing by which men display their character so much as in what they consider ridiculous... Fools and sensible men are equally innocuous. It is in the half fools and the half wise that the great danger lies.”

“A human being needs only a small plot of ground on which to be happy, and even less to lie beneath.”

“Come my little one, and give me your hand.”

“The better you get, the less you run around showing off as a muscle guy. You know, you wear regular shirts-not always trying to show off what you have. You talk less about it. It's like you have a little BMW - you want to race the hell out of this car, because you know it's just going 110. But if you see guys driving a Ferrari or a Lamborghini, they slide around at 60 on the freeway because they know if they press on that accelerator they are going to go 170. These things are the same in every field.”

“To blow is not to play on the flute; you must move the fingers.[Ger., Blasen ist nicht floten, ihr musst die Finger bewegen.]”

“The height of cultivation always runs to simplicity ... the ability to express the utmost with the minimum. It is the halfway cultivation that leads to ornamentation.”

“I like to think the moon is there even if I am not looking at it.”

“Of course! The path to heaven doesn't lie down in flat miles. It's in the imagination with which you perceive this world, and the gestures with which you honor it.”

“This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted.”