If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become wh… - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.

I am proud of my heart alone, it is the sole source of everything, all our strength, happiness and misery. All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own

In happy ignorance, I sighed for a world I did not know, where I hoped to find every pleasure and enjoyment which my heart could desire; and now, on my return from that wide world... how many disappointed hopes and unsuccessful plans have I brought back!

Talent develops in tranquility, character in the full current of human life.