"It is difficult to live with people because it is so difficult to be silent. And not against him who is repugnant to us are we most unfair, but against him who is no concern of ours."

"How people keep correcting us when we are young! There is always some bad habit or other they tell us we ought to get over. Yet most bad habits are tools to help us through life."

"How good bad music and bad reasons sound when one marches against an enemy!"

"There are no facts, only interpretations."

"The world itself is the will to power - and nothing else! And you yourself are the will to power - and nothing else!"

"Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies."

"I want to do something different, really different, and if it alienates people thata€?s too bad."

"The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play."

"He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career."

"Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy."

"A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself."

"...and in the long run, disease is more humane than war or starvation. My, isn't that gloomy?"