Above all, do not lose your desire to walk.

The more people who believe something, the more apt it is to be wrong. The person who's right often has to stand alone.

The ever increasing intensity of despair depends upon the degree of consciousness or is proportionate to this increase: the greater the degree of consciousness, the more intensive the despair. This is everywhere apparent, most clearly in despair at its maximum and minimum. The devil's despair is the most intensive despair, for the devil is sheer spirit and hence unqualified consciousness and transparency; there is no obscurity in the devil that could serve as a mitigating excuse. Therefore, his despair is the most absolute defiance. . . .

It is not where we breathe, but where we Love, that we live.

Choose to be who you are. . . The individual who would become a person must at some point take over his entire being - must, that is, choose herself.

Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.

Your own tactic is to train yourself in the art of becoming enigmatic to everybody. My young friend, suppose there was no one who troubld himself to guess your riddle--what joy, then, would you have in it?