"The quest for philosophy's beginning is idle, for everywhere in all beginnings we find only the crude, the unformed, the empty, and the ugly. What matters in all things is the higher levels."

"Maturity consists in having rediscovered the seriousness one had as a child at play."

"What does not kill me, makes me stronger."

"The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments."

"One must still have chaos in oneself to give birth to a dancing star."

"The world itself is the will to power - and nothing else! And you yourself are the will to power - and nothing else!"

"Some men storm imaginary Alps all their lives and die in the foothills cursing difficulties which do not exist."

"There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money, either."

"Our deeds follow us, and what we have been makes us what we are."

"It takes a big man to cry. It takes an even bigger man to laugh at that man and an ever bigger man to ask why he is laughing."

"Don't let the sun go down upon your anger; forgive each other, help each other, and begin again tomorrow."

"The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own."