"Believe me! The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously!"

"But thus do I counsel you, my friends: distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful!"

"Not to see many things, not to hear them, not to let them approach one--first piece of ingenuity, first proof that one is no accident but a necessity."

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

"Only sick music makes money today."

"A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all."

"A man who procrastinates in his choosing will inevitably have his choice made for him by circumstance."

"Being another character is more interesting than being yourself."

"I saw that all things I feared, and which feared me, had nothing good or bad in them save insofar as the mind was affected by them."

"In difficult and desperate cases, the boldest counsels are the safest."

"If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?"

"God gave us the gift of life. It is the most precious gift ever. To be unarmed is to be helpless to protect that gift; that is outright irresponsible."