We are doubly willing to jump into the water after some one who has fallen in, if there are people present who have not the courage to do so.

But anyone who has really made sacrifices knows that he wanted and got something in return perhaps something for something of himself - that he gave up in order to have more here or at least to feel that he has "more".

Every habit makes our hand more witty and our wit less handy.

One must first be firmly set in oneself, one must stand securely on one's own two legs otherwise one cannot love at all.

...lust is only a sweet poison for the weakling, but for those who will with a lion's heart it is the reverently reserved wine of wines.

What does your conscience say? — 'You should become the person you are'.

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.