The world will be saved by one or two people.

Humanity cherishes its swaddling clothes; but it shall not grow up unless it can free itself from them. Turning down his mother's breast does not make the weaned child ungrateful. ... Rise up naked, valiant; make the sheaths crack; push aside the stakes; to grow straight you need no more than the thrust of your sap and the call of the sun.

Man's first and greatest victory must be won against the gods.

Long only for what you have.

Other people's appetites easily appear excessive when one doesn't share them.

One is always wrong to open a conversation with the devil, for, however he goes about it, he always insists upon having the last word.

Of some forty families I have been able to observe, I know hardly four in which the parents do not act in such a way that nothing would be more desirable for the child than to escape their influence.