Never complain and never explain.
If you've got a talent, protect it.
The most effective way to do it, is to do it.
To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
After a storm comes a calm.
Only the educated are free.
What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.
Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
My birth neither shook the German Empire nor caused much of an upheaval in the home. It pleased mother, caused father a certain amount of pride and my elder brother the usual fraternal jealousy of a hitherto only son.