Invisible threads are the strongest ties.

Enduring habits I hate.... Yes, at the very bottom of my soul I feel grateful to all my misery and bouts of sickness and everything about me that is imperfect, because this sort of thing leaves me with a hundred backdoors through which I can escape from enduring habits.

I could only believe in a God who could dance... And now a God dances through me.

But are there many honest people who will admit that it is pleasing to give pain?

In intercourse with scholars and artists one readily makes mistakes of opposite kinds: in a remarkable scholar one not infrequently finds a mediocre man; and often, even in a mediocre artist, one finds a very remarkable man.

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

The State is the coldest of all cold monsters.