"All that is straight lies. All truth is crooked; time itself is a circle."

"In heaven all the interesting people are missing."

"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."

"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."

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

"At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid."

"Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I'll forgive Thy great big joke on me."

"When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty."

"Mercy is not itself, that oft looks so"

"Resolved, that the women of this nation in 1876, have greater cause for discontent, rebellion and revolution than the men of 1776."

"Gossip is sometimes referred to as halitosis of the mind"

"Rules are for people who don't know how to get around them."