"This world is the will to power - and nothing besides!"

"In a friend one should have ones best enemy. You should be closest to him with your heart when you resist him."

"Although the most acute judges of the witches, & even the witches themselves, were convinced of the guilt of witchery, the guilt nevertheless was nonexistent. It is thus with all guilt."

"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."

"Faith: not *wanting* to know what is true."

"They punish you for all your virtues. They forgive you entirely--your mistakes."

"What if there had been room at the inn?"

"The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes--ah, that is where the art resides!"

"The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and will to carry on."

"The sane appear as strange to the mad as the mad to the sane"

"You cannot keep a man down without staying down with him."

"The picture you have in your mind of what you're about will come true."