Enduring habits I hate.... Yes, at the very bottom of my soul I feel grateful to all my misery and bouts of sickness and everything about me that is imperfect, because this sort of thing leaves me with a hundred backdoors through which I can escape from enduring habits.

One will not go wrong if one attributes extreme actions to vanity, average ones to habit, and petty ones to fear.

A man who has depths in his shame meets his destiny and his delicate decisions upon paths which few ever reach...

You need chaos in your soul to give birth to a dancing star.

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil.

It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right - especially when one is right.

In heaven all the interesting people are missing.

The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.

Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.

Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.

Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he doesn't become a monster.