“Come! into the open, friend! admittedly only a little is gleaming todaydown and narrowly the heaven is enclosing us.Neither the mountains have yet risen of the forestthe peak as wished and empty the air is resting of singingIt’s dull today, the ways and lanes are slumbering and nearly it mayseem to me to be as in the leaden time. Nevertheless the wish succeeds, true believers don’t have doubts about Onehour and to the pleasure the day must furthermore be dedicated.”

“What has always made the state a hell on earth has been precisely that man has tried to make it heaven.”

“close and difficult to realize is the god, but where danger abounds, grows what saves.”

“Denn sie, die uns das himmlische Feuer leihen, die Götter, schenken heiliges Leid uns auch.”

“if you truly want to know why I'm helping you, you won't get any easy answers. It's not because I believe in the goodness of humankind. It's not because I believe God and the rest of the monsters are evil. I only wish to have the capacity to change. To know that we have the ability to take a different direction than the one presented to us. That is more important than good and evil. Than life or death.”

“Today, my love, I am too tired to write for you. You will find in your heart a letter, several pages, full of silence. Read it slowly. The light of this day wrote it for me. In it, it si just about you and the rest coming to me each time I look to you, far away, hundreds kilometers from here.”

“My dear friend, what is this our life? A boat that swims in the sea, and all one knows for certain about it is that one day it will capsize. Here we are, two good old boats that have been faithful neighbors, and above all your hand has done its best to keep me from "capsizing"! Let us then continue our voyage—each for the other's sake, for a long time yet, a long time! We should miss each other so much! Tolerably calm seas and good winds and above all sun—what I wish for myself, I wish for you, too, and am sorry that my gratitude can find expression only in such a wish and has no influence at all on wind or weather!”