Error is related to truth as sleeping is to waking. I have observed that when one has been in error, one turns to truth as though revitalized. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I have come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element. It is my personal approach that creates the climate. It is my daily mood that makes the weather. I possess tremendous power to make life miserable or joyous. I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration, I can humiliate or humor, hurt or heal. In all situations, it is my response that decides whether a crisis is escalated or de-escalated, and a person is humanized or de-humanized. If we treat people as they are, we make them worse. If we treat people as they ought to be, we help them become what they are capable of becoming.

Ein echter deutscher Mann mag keinen Franzen leiden,<br

A man's shortcomings are taken from his epoch; his virtues and greatness belong to himself.