I still live, I still think: I still have to live, for I still have to think.

And if a man goes through fire for his doctrine - what does that prove? Verily, it is more if your own doctrine comes out of your own fire.

Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.

The discipline of suffering, of great suffering - do you not know that it is this discipline alone that has produced all the elevations of humanity so far?

The thousand mysteries around us would not trouble but interest us, if only we had cheerful, healthy hearts.

Your only problem, perhaps, is that you scream without letting yourself cry.

Whoever wants to set a good example must add a grain of foolishness to his virtue: then others can imitate and yet at the same time surpass the one they imitate-which human beings love to do.