There is one thing one has to have either a soul that is cheerful by nature, or a soul made cheerful by work, love, art, and knowledge.

A man who has depths in his shame meets his destiny and his delicate decisions upon paths which few ever reach . . .

The best of all things is something entirely outside your grasp: not to be born, not to be, to be nothing. But the second-best thing for you - is to die soon.

Without the errors which lie in the assumption of morality, man would have remained an animal.

Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.

The value of a man can only be measured with regard to other men.

One never dives into the water to save a drowning man more eagerly than when there are others present who dare not take the risk.