Each person's task in life is to become an increasingly better person.

Well, so it isn't time yet to die, is it?

Power, from the standpoint of experience, is merely the relation that exists between the expression of someone's will and the execution of that will by others.

You can't imagine what a pleasure this complete laziness is to me: not a thought in my brain- you might send a ball rolling through it!

The soul is immortal- well then, if I shall always live, I must have lived before, lived for a whole eternity.

Every time I tried to express my most heartfelt desires to be morally good I met with contempt and ridicule; and as soon as I would give in to vile passions I was praised and encouraged. Ambition, love of power, self-interest, lechery, pride, anger, vengeance-all of it was highly esteemed.

All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.