No one can construct for you the bridge upon which precisely you must cross the stream of life, no one but you yourself alone.

We cannot live without valuing: but we can live without valuing what you value.

Not doubt, certainty is what drives one insane.

The danger in happiness - "Now everything is turning out right for me; from now on i'll love every turn of fate - Who wants to be my fate?

Many find their heart when they have lost their head.

Do ask yourself why you, the individual, exist, and if you can get no other answer try for once to justify the meaning of your existence as it were a posteriori by setting before yourself an aim, a goal, a 'to this end', an exalted and noble 'to this end'.

Everything that is ponderous, vicious and pompously clumsy, all long-winded and wearying kinds of style, are developed in great variety among Germans.