"We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden." 
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Whatever you do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius and power and magic in it.” 
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world."  
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself, it is a child of solitude." 
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking."
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, till they take root in our personal experience.”
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"What do people mean when they talk about unhappiness? It is not so much unhappiness as impatience that from time to time possesses men, and then they choose to call themselves miserable." 
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe