"To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering."

"Nothing on earth consumes a man more quickly than the passion of resentment."

"It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book."

"Man is something that shall be overcome.Man is a rope,tied between beast and overman - a rope over an abyss.What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not an end."

"...throw roses into the abyss and say: 'here is my thanks to the monster who didn't succeed in swallowing me alive."

"There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths."

"For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity or perception to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication."

"And once you are awake, you shall remain awake eternally."

"Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not."

"If you know the why, you can live any how."

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

"True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness."

"One must give value to their existence by behaving as if ones very existence were a work of art."

"Remorse.-- Never yield to remorse, but at once tell yourself: remorse would simply mean adding to the first act of stupidity a second."

"Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'."

"Without analysis, no synthesis."

"What each individual wills is obstructed by everyone else, and what emerges is something that no one willed."

"Often, problems are knots with many strands, and looking at those strands can make a problem seem different."

"You make each day a special day. You know how, by just your being you."

"Our world hangs like a magnificent jewel in the vastness of space. Every one of us is a part of that jewel. A facet of that jewel. And in the perspective of infinity, our differences are infinitesimal."

"It's only because of their stupidity that they're able to be so sure of themselves."

"There are many ways to manipulate chip cards. For example, a number of years ago when American Express issued the first chip card, criminals would take a small hammer with a little device and bang the chip to destroy it without hurting the physical appearance of the card."

"I was a millionaire twice over and half again before I was twenty-one. I stole every nickel of it and blew the bulk of the bundle on fine threads, gourmet foods, luxurious lodgings, fantastic foxes, fine wheels, and other sensual goodies."

"I was just a guy who ran away from home at 16 because my parents were getting a divorce and the judge was making me choose which parent to live with. I didn't want to make that choice. I ended up in New York City."