What batters you becomes your strength.

He who understands one thing understands everything, for the same laws are in all.

Fame is finally only the sum total of all the misunderstanding that can gather around a new name.

All emotions are pure which gather you and lift you up; that emotion is impure which seizes only one side of your being and so distorts you.

Embrace your solitude and love it. Endure the pain it causes, and try to sing out with it. For those near to you are distant.

Don't take my devils away, because my angels may flee too.

The necessary thing is after all but this; solitude, great inner solitude. Going into oneself for hours meeting no one - this one must be able to attain.