power, after it has ceased from troubling, is the dominant passion in human nature.

The human mind has an infinite capacity for self-deception.

The final result of too much routine is death in life.

... books are too heterogeneous an interest to furnish a vital one in life, a reason for being alive.

Better extirpate the whole breed, root and branch. And this, unless the German people come to their senses, is what we propose to do.

Whether you fail or set the world on fire cannot make so very much difference if only you have the opportunity to try for it, to work for it, to think of nothing else!

... the irony of life is not that you cannot forget but that you can.