"If I am selling to you, I speak your language. If I am buying, dann müssen sie Deutsch sprechen." ‒ Willy Brandt 

"Translation is not a matter of words only: it is a matter of making intelligible a whole culture." ‒ Anthony Burgess

"Translation is that which transforms everything so that nothing changes." ‒ Grass Günter

"Say what we may of the inadequacy of translation, yet the work is and will always be one of the weightiest and worthiest undertakings in the general concerns of the world." ‒ J. W. Goethe