"If you modestly enjoy your fame you..." - Quote by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

“I can promise to be sincere, but I cannot promise to be impartial.”

“If you want to make life easy, make it hard.”

“The day of fortune is like a harvest day,We must be busy when the corn is ripe.[Ger., Ein tag der Gunst ist wie ein Tag der Ernte,Man muss geschaftig sein sobald sie reift.]”

“Don't be concerned about others not appreciating you. Be concerned about your not appreciating others.”

“Humility is a flower which does not grow in everyone's garden.”

“I don't need to be vindicated, and I don't want attention.”

“People ask me what's like to hear our song on the radio. I don't know, I don't listen to the radio”

“When the gratitude of many to one throws away all shame, we behold fame.”

“I hate crowds and making speeches. I hate facing cameras and having to answer to a crossfire of questions. Why popular fancy should seize upon me, a scientist, dealing in abstract things and happy if left alone, is a manifestation of mass psychology that is beyond me.”