Goethe

What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.

I’d rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.

I’ve learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.

A person should design the way he makes a living around how he wishes to make a life.

Nature has no mercy at all. Nature says, I’m going to snow. If you have on a bikini and no snowshoes, that’s tough. I am going to snow anyway.

Experience shows that the frequent use of severe punishment has never rendered a people better. The death of a criminal is a less effective means of restraining crimes than the permanent example of a man deprived of his liberty during the whole of his life to make amends for the injury he has done to the public.

Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

If you genuinely want something, don’t wait for it — teach yourself to be impatient.

The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous. Hierarchical society is only possible on the basis of poverty and ignorance.

The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.

Never turn your back on enthusiasm.

[To Robertson] I think you should move to California. Malibu is paradise. You can always change your mind. Why don’t you just let me put this together? I’ll get you a house in the Malibu Colony.

When we are through, we shall have reproduced American life as lived; and that, I think is the best way of preserving at least a part of our history and tradition.

We learn something every day, and lots of times it’s that what we learned the day before was wrong.

As I get older, I just prefer to knit.

An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex.