"The diabolical thing about melancholy is not that it makes you ill but that it makes you conceited and shortsighted; yes almost arrogant. You lapse into bad taste, thinking of yourself as Heine’s Atlas, whose shoulders support all the world’s puzzles and agonies, as if thousands, lost in the same maze, did not endure the same agonies."

-HERMANN HESSE

"Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish."

-HERMAN HESSE

"It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is."

-HERMAN HESSE