When young one is confident to be able to build palaces for mankind, but when the time comes one has one's hands full just to be able to remove their trash.

Getting along with women, Knocking around with men, Having more credit than money, Thus one goes through the world.

Noble be man, Helpful and good! For that alone Sets hims apart From every other creature On earth.

If you inquire what the people are like here, I must answer, 'The same as everywhere!'

'Take what you can from your dreams, make them as real as anything.'

'Wer das Wunschbare mit dem Machbaren verwechselt, wird scheitern.' ('Who mixes up the wishable and the doable will fail')

The last verse [In My Secret Life] completely got to me, about how we all have great ideals but in reality we end up conforming, following everyone else. We wa…