"It is difficult to live with people because it is so difficult to be silent. And not against him who is repugnant to us are we most unfair, but against him who is no concern of ours."

"In heaven all the interesting people are missing."

"He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you."

"Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine."

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

"One must have a good memory to be able to keep the promises one makes."

"You have never done enough, so long as it is still possible that you have something of value to contribute"

"Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face."

"What men call good fellowship is commonly but the virtue of pigs in a litter which lie close together to keep each other warm."

"Never promise more than you can perform."

"Too much sanity may be madness - and the maddest of all - to see life as it is, and not as it ought to be."

"Out of the strain of the Doing, Into the peace of the Done."