"So dear night the half of life..." - Quote by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

“Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.”

“Any trifle is enough to entertain two lovers.”

“You can’t, if you can’t feel it, if it never Rises from the soul, and sways The heart of every single hearer, With deepest power, in simple ways. You’ll sit forever, gluing things together, Cooking up a stew from other’s scraps, Blowing on a miserable fire, Made from your heap of dying ash. Let apes and children praise your art, If their admiration’s to your taste, But you’ll never speak from heart to heart, Unless it rises up from your heart’s space.”

“Far in the pillared dark Thrush music went- Almost like a call to come in To the dark and lament. But no, I was out for stars: I would not come in. I meant not even if asked, And I hadn't been.”

“Night is the other half of life, and the better half.”

“Night had come—night that she loved of all times, night in which the reflections in the dark pool of the mind shine more clearly than by day.”

“It is not worth the while to go round the world to count the cats in Zanzibar. Yet do this even till you can do better, and you may perhaps find some "Symmes' Hole" by which to get at the inside at last.”

“But for what purpose was the earth formed?" asked Candide. "To drive us mad," replied Martin.”

“Acting, it's not my life, my children and my family, that's life. I'll get up every morning, God willing, for that.”