Poets and writers who are in love with the superlative all want to do more than they can.

Childhood and youth are ends in themselves, not stages.

I wish to be at any time hereafter only a yea-sayer!

We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.

The most dangerous follower is the one whose defection would destroy the whole party: hence, the best follower.

He who is dissatisfied with himself is continually ready for revenge and we others will be his victims, if only in having always to endure his ugly sight. For the sight of the ugly makes one bad and gloomy.

Companions the creator seeks, not corpses, not herds and believers. Fellow creators the creator seeks -- those who write new values on new tablets. Companions the creator seeks, and fellow harvesters; for everything about him is ripe for the harvest.