"Convictions are prisons."

"But thus do I counsel you, my friends: distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful!"

"Disgust with dirt can be so great that it prevents us from cleaning ourselves - from 'justifying' ourselves."

"Hope in reality is the worst of all evils, because it prolongs the torments of man."

"Faith: not *wanting* to know what is true."

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

"The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play."

"Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us."

"Excellence is best described as doing the right things right - selecting the most important things to be done and then accomplishing them 100% correctly."

"If the day and the night are such that you greet them with with joy, and life emits a fragrance like flowers and sweet-scented herbs, more elastic, more starry, more immortal--that is your success."

"I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him."

"Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can't build on it; it's only for wallowing in."