I possess so much, but my love for her absorbs it all. I possess so much, but without her I have nothing.

if only these treasures were not so fragile as they are precious and beautiful.

A human being needs only a small plot of ground on which to be happy, and even less to lie beneath.

What is the destiny of man, but to fill up the measure of his sufferings, and to drink his allotted cup of bitterness?

I was on the point of breaking off the conversation, for nothing puts me so completely out of patience as the utterance of a wretched commonplace when I am talking from my inmost heart.

It seems it has been my fate to sadden those I should have made happy.

I could be living the best and happiest of lives if only I were not a fool.

Once we are lost unto ourselves, everything else is lost to us.

It is not easy in this world for one person to understand the next one.

Man needs only a small patch of earth for his pleasures, and a smaller one still to rest beneath.

Solitude is precious balm to my heart in these paradistic parts.

To overcome the fear of failure, do what makes you fearful.

What we think to be our greatest weakness can sometimes be our biggest strength.

Literature is not a sack race. There aren't real winners and losers in the Republic of Letters.

A person with power controls their life and their destiny. They have a mastery. Their moments are aware moments in this world, never wasted.

From 1918 on, trade unionists were to express from the platforms of their congresses the workers' desire for peace through a rational organization of the world.

Greece could default on its debts and even exit currency bloc if it cannot deliver reforms.

If Adenauer were here with us in the sauna, we could see for ourselves that Germany is and will remain divided but also that Germany never will rise again.

I think so many times we feel like we're lacking something in our lives and we try to fill it with the wrong things. Sometimes it's drugs, sometimes it's a relationship you shouldn't be in.

You know, I've held women and babies and jewels and money, but nothing will ever feel as good as holding that Cup.

But He is risen, a later star of dawn.