Genius begins great works labor alone finishes it.

Words are like eyeglasses they blur everything that they do not make clear.

Monuments are the grappling-irons that bind one generation to another.

The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.

Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.

The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.

A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

We find little in a book but what we put there. But in great books, the mind finds room to put many things.

The evening of life brings with it its lamps.

He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.

Close your eyes and you will see.

Maximum difficulty isn't the same as optimal difficulty.

Its silly to say it about a tennis player, but Im an unbelievable hero in Germany. And Germany needs heroes more than any place.

Only real risk passes the reality of faith.

I sit there thinking about how much courage it takes to live an ordinary life.

Industrial societies can only be run successfully by dictators or oligarchs.

Within the stability of a family struggle, when there's less chaos, you can have the most soul-searching and the most digging to find out what and who you really are.

All the blood is drained out of democracy - it dies - when only half the population votes.

When you truly are on purpose, the people, resources, and opportunities you need naturally gravitate toward you.

The beauty of enmity is insecurity; the beauty of friendship is in security.

Apart from Love, which is not a human emotion, of all the rest my last words would best read: It's all for the experience.