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

"It is difficult to live with people because it is so difficult to be silent. And not against him who is repugnant to us are we most unfair, but against him who is no concern of ours."

"Hope in reality is the worst of all evils, because it prolongs the torments of man."

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

"In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point."

"Man is more ape than many of the apes."

"Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward."

"I knew I'd been living in Berkeley too long when I saw a sign that said 'Free firewood' and my first thought was 'Who was Firewood and what did he do?'"

"You can use all the quantitative data you can get, but you still have to distrust it and use your own intelligence and judgment."

"For flavor, instant sex will never supercede the stuff you have to peel and cook."

"A child may have too much of his mother's blessing."

"The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in which direction we are moving."