We seldom break a leg as long as we are climbing wearily upwards in our lives, instead we do it when we start going easy on ourselves and choosing the comfortable paths.

I love those who do not know how to live, except by going under, for they are those who cross over.

Digressions, objections, delight in mockery, carefree mistrust are signs of health.

The happiness of man is: I will. The happiness of woman is: he wills. 'Behold , just now the world ... entire love. And woman must obey and find a depth for her surface. Surface is the disposition of woman: a mobile, stormy film over shallow water. Man's disposition, however, is deep; his river roars in subterranean caves: woman feels his strength but does not comprehend it.

He who knows not how to plant his will in things at least endows them with some meaning: that is to say, he believes that a will is already present in them (A principle of faith.)

Whoever has really sacrificed anything, knows that he wanted and got something in return.

When asses are needed.- You will never get the crowd to cry Hosanna until you ride into town on an ass.