It is the privilege of greatness to confer intense happiness with insignificant gifts.

Unconsciously we seek the principles and opinions which are suited to our temperament, so that at last it seems as if these principles and opinions had formed our character and given it support and stability.

In the world of high finance the shilling of the idle rich man can buy more than that of the poor, industrious man.

Nothing in life possesses value except the degree of power--assuming that life itself is the will to power.

Mankind must work continually to produce individual great human beings - this and nothing else is the task... for the question is this : How can your life, the individual life, retain the highest value, the deepest significance? Only by living for the good of the rarest and most valuable specimens.

As an artist one has no home in Europe except in Paris.

We are, all of us, growing volcanoes that approach the hour of their eruption, but how near or distant that is, nobody knows- not even God.