"If you are going to build something in the air it is always better to build castles than houses of cards"
"If the little bit you have is nothing special in itself, at least find a way of saying it that is a little bit special"
"If people should ever start to do only what is necessary millions would die of hunger"
"If all else fails, the character of a man can be recognized by nothing so surely as by a jest which he takes badly"
"I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is they must change if they are to get better"
"I believe that man is in the last resort so free a being that his right to be what he believes himself to be cannot be contested"
"I am convinced we do not only love ourselves in others but hate ourselves in others too"
"Here take back the stuff that I am, nature, knead it back into the dough of being, make of me a bush, a cloud, whatever you will, even a man, only no longer make me me"
"He who says he hates every kind of flattery, and says it in earnest, certainly does not yet know every kind of flattery"
"He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage - he won't encounter many rivals"
