"Battle not with monsters, lest ye become a monster, and if you gaze into the abyss, the abyss gazes also into you."

"How people keep correcting us when we are young! There is always some bad habit or other they tell us we ought to get over. Yet most bad habits are tools to help us through life."

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

"Excessive productivity can bring the most gifted man almost to madness."

"When virtue has slept, she will get up more refreshed."

"The overman...Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment."

"Better late than never."

"There's a hero if you look inside your heart. You don't have to be afraid of what you are."

"And remember, no matter where you go, there you are."

"Who can protest and does not, is an accomplice in the act."

"Experience shows that success is due less to ability that to zeal. The winner is he who gives himself to his work, body and soul."

"If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants."