What is the path? There is no path. On into the unknown.

He who does not expect a million readers should not write a line.

For I have been a man, and that means to have been a fighter.

Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid.

One is led astray alike by sympathy and coldness, by praise and by blame

There are two things parents should give their children roots and wings. Roots to give them bearing and a sense of belonging, but also wings to help free them from constraints and prejudices and give them other ways to travel (or rather, to fly).

The greatest evil that can befall man is that he should come to think ill of himself.