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

Improvements are invented only by those who can feel that something is not good.

A light has dawned for me: I need companions, living ones, not dead companions and corpses which I carry with me wherever I wish. But I need living companions who follow me because they want to follow themselves- and who want to go where I want to go.

Only strong personalities can endure history, the weak are extinguished by it.

Creation is the great redemption from suffering and all life's growing light. But the creator must be suffering if needed and accept much change.

What is the ape to man? A laughing-stock or a painful embarrassment. And just that shall man be for the superman: a laughing-stock or a painful embarrassment.

Kindliness, friendliness, the courtesy of the heart, are ever-flowing streams of non egoistic impulses, and have given far more powerful assistance to culture than even those much more famous demonstrations which are called pity, mercy, and self-sacrifice.