Consider the cattle, grazing as they pass you by. They do not know what is meant by yesterday or today, they leap about, eat, rest, digest, leap about again, and so from morn till night and from day to day, fettered to the moment and its pleasure or displeasure, and thus neither melancholy nor bored. [...] A human being may well ask an animal: 'Why do you not speak to me of your happiness but only stand and gaze at me?' The animal would like to answer, and say, 'The reason is I always forget what I was going to say' - but then he forgot this answer too, and stayed silent.

From people who merely pray we must become people who bless.

You want to make him interested in you? Then pretend to be embarrassed in his presence-

Do not paint a picture either of God or the devil on your walls: this will ruin both your walls and the atmosphere.

Great men's errors are to be venerated as more fruitful than little men's truths.

I love those who do not first seek a reason beyond the stars for going down and being sacrifices, but sacrifice themselves to the earth, that the earth of the Superman may hereafter arrive.

Only ideas won by walking have any value.