"At that point I asked myself: How..." - Quote by Franz Kafka

“There is an infinite amount of hope in the universe ... but not for us.”

“God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.”

“We need the books that affect us like a disaster”

“To know what you know and what you do not know, that is true knowledge.”

“It is a great thing to know your vices.”

“There is someone I accept even though I do not approve of all he does...and that someone is me”

“If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.”

“When you are starting away, leaving your more familiar fields, for a little adventure like a walk, you look at every object with a traveler's, or at least with historical, eyes; you pause on the first bridge, where an ordinary walk hardly commences, and begin to observe and moralize like a traveler. It is worth the while to see your native village thus sometimes, as if you were a traveler passing through it, commenting on your neighbors as strangers.”

“It's in the homes of spiteful old widows that one finds such cleanliness.”