"Be careful when you fight the monsters, lest you become one."

"This world is the will to power - and nothing besides!"

"Believe me! The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously!"

"People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights."

"What ever lives obeys . . . he who cannot obey himself is commanded."

"The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends."

"I'm glad we don't have to play in the shade."

"To give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness."

"Poetry and Hums aren't things which you get, they're things which get you. And all you can do is go where they can find you."

"For Orpheus' lute was strung with poets' sinews, Whose golden touch could soften steel and stones, Make tigers tame, and huge leviathans Forsake unsounded deeps to dance on sands."

"Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well."

"We cannot view the world through another being's eyes. Love is knowing, without a doubt, another's perception of the world and being content with having no evidence."