"People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights."

"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."

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

"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."

"For men are not equal: thus speaks justice."

"It is time, it is high time... Yes, but to do what?"

"The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it."

"A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on."

"I want to grow old without facelifts. I want to have the courage to be loyal to the face I have made."

"I was gratified to be able to answer promptly. I said, 'I don't know.'"

"Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes."

"Our pains are no excuse for slandering the world."