One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.

A book is made better by good readers and clearer by good opponents.

It is very noble hypocrisy not to talk of one's self.

A life without music is an error.

But say, my brothers, what can the child do that even the lion could not do? Why must the preying lion still become a child? The child is innocence and forgetting, a new beginning, a sacred 'Yes.' For the game of creation, my brothers, a sacred 'Yes' is needed: the spirit now wills his own will, and he who had been lost to the world now conquers his own world.

The task is not to overcome opponents in general but only those opponents against whom one has to summon all one's strength, one's skill and one's swordsmanship-in fact to master opponents who are one's equals.

There are two different types of people in the world, those who want to know, and those who want to believe.