"You are, when all is done-just what..." - Quote by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

“We must not hope to be mowers, And to gather the ripe gold ears, Unless we have first been sowers And water the furrows with tears. It is not just as we take it, This mystical world of ours, Life's field will yield as we make it A harvest of thorns or of flowers.”

“Our earthly ball a peopled garden.”

“Upon the creatures we have made, we are, ourselves, at last, dependent.”

“There are too many stars and too few actors.”

“Past scholars studied to improve themselves; Today's scholars study to impress others.”

“If I were to start taking care of my grooming, I would no longer be my own self... so the hell with it... I will continue to be unconcerned about it, which surely has the advantage that I'm left in peace by many a fop who would otherwise come to see me.”

“And so, onwards... along a path of wisdom, with a hearty tread, a hearty confidence.. however you may be, be your own source of experience. Throw off your discontent about your nature. Forgive yourself your own self. You have it in your power to merge everything you have lived through- false starts, errors, delusions, passions, your loves and your hopes- into your goal, with nothing left over.”

“Everything you need you already have. You are complete right now, you are a whole, total person, not an apprentice person on the way to someplace else.”

“People in this world shun people for being great, for being a bright color, for standing out. But the time is now, to be OK with being the greatest you.”