One must learn to be a sponge if one wants to be loved by hearts that overflow.

For as long as they praise you, never forget that it is not yet your own path that you walk, but another person's.

We labour at our daily work more ardently and thoughtlessly than is necessary to sustain our life because it is even more necessary not to have leisure to stop and think. Haste is universal because everyone is in flight from himself.

The people we keep standing in the anteroom of our favor either start fermenting or turn sour.

Man is a rope stretched between the animal and the Superman-a rope over an abyss. A dangerous crossing, a dangerous wayfaring, a dangerous looking-back, a dangerous trembling and halting

Or shall I go out as a light does, not first blown out by the wind, but grown tired and weary of itself - a burnt out light? Or finally, shall I blow myself out, so as not to burn out?

We cannot live without valuing: but we can live without valuing what you value.