We love life, not because we are used to living but because... - Friedrich Nietzsche

"Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend."

"We talk so abstractly about poetry because all of us are usually bad poets."

"The overman...Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment."

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

"I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage"