But to fall in love does not mean to love. One can fall in love and still hate.

Power is given only to those who dare to lower themselves and pick it up. Only one thing matters, one thing; to be able to dare!

To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.

I don't need money, or, better, it's not money that I need; it's not even power; I need only what is obtained by power and simply cannot be obtained without power: the solitary and calm awareness of strength! That is the fullest definition of freedom, which the world so struggles over!

It is not as a child that I believe and confess Jesus Christ. My hosanna is born of a furnace of doubt.

It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man's life is made up of nothing, but the habits he has accumulated during the first half.

It's in despair that you find the sharpest pleasures, particularly when you are most acutely aware of the hopelessness of your position.