Jean Paul Richter

When you get to the top, don’t forget to send the elevator down for the next guy.

The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.

A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.

I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter.

Think about all of the times, situations, and circumstances where you have gotten caught up in making your self right rather than happy… The harder you fight to win, the bigger you lose.

Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.

The highest perfection of politeness is only a beautiful edifice, built, from the base to the dome, of ungraceful and gilded forms of charitable and unselfish lying.

Indulgence doesn’t prepare, indulgence can cripple a child because the world won’t indulge her.

Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.

It is easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them.

Careful. We don’t want to learn from this.

When hungry, eat your rice; when tired, close your eyes. Fools may laugh at me, but wise men will know what I mean.

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.

Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.

There’s a lot of people out there who go through hard times, and they feel alone. They feel like nobody is there. But I’m in the same boat.