“Yes: I exist inside my body.Im not carrying the sun and the moon in my pocket.I dont want to conquer worlds because I slept badly,And I dont want to eat the world for breakfast because I have a sto...”

“Its an already inside outside,The philosophers say its the soulBut its not the soul: its the animal or the man itselfIn its way of existing.”

“Shes a manner of speaking.Even the flowers dont come back, or the green leaves.There are new flowers, new green leaves.There are other beautiful days.Nothing comes back, nothing repeats itself, bec...”

“What comes, when it comes, will be what it is.”

“If I knew I was going to die tomorrow,And Spring came the day after tomorrow,I would die peacefully, because it came the day after tomorrow.If thats its time, when else should it come?I like it tha...”

“Im glad I see with my eyes and not the pages Ive read.”

“No man needs sympathy because he has to work, because he has a burden to carry. Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.”

“All my life I've been surrounded by people who are smarter than I am, but I found I could always keep up by working hard.”

“Loveless work, boring work, work valued only because others haven't got even that much, however loveless and boring--this is one of the harshest human miseries.”

“Everything is important. To the smallest insect, even the mouldering tree, the deepest stone in the drift.”

“Now I sense the perfume of flowers like seeing a new thing.I know they smell just as well as I know I existed.Theyre things known from the outside.But now I know with my breathing from the back of ...”

“Existence is a priceless gift and the beauties of nature are the priceless gifts of the existence!”

“Ohne Hast, aber ohne Rast. - Without haste, but without rest.”

“I think the two things most opposed to good counsel are haste and passion; haste usaully goes hand in hand with folly, passion with coarseness and narrowness of mind.”

“Use the first moments in study. You may miss many an opportunity for quick victory in this way, but the moment the study are in insurance of success. Take your time and be sure.”