"We can most safely achieve truly universal..." - Quote by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

“Voluntary dependence is the wonderful form of existence, and how could that be possible without love?”

“Nothing is worth more than this day.”

“Two souls dwell, alas! in my breast.”

“Until you have cultivated the habit of saying some kind word of those whom you do not admire, you will be neither successful nor happy.”

“Toleration ought in reality to be merely a transitory mood. It must lead to recognition. To tolerate is to affront.”

“What remarkable strength is shown by the person who can lay aside personal prejudices and work without friction with a group of individuals with whom he or she is not in accord on many subjects.”

“I live in my own place - have never copied anyone even half, and at any master who lacks the grace - to laugh at himself - I laugh.”

“Mine is better than ours.”

“You can’t learn to write in college. It’s a very bad place for writers because the teachers always think they know more than you do—and they don’t. They have prejudices. They may like Henry James, but what if you don’t want to write like Henry James? They may like John Irving, for instance, who’s the bore of all time. A lot of the people whose work they’ve taught in the schools for the last thirty years, I can’t understand why people read them and why they are taught.”