Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.

To cheat one's self out of love is the greatest deception of which there is no reparation in either time or eternity.

Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.

People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.

The tyrant dies and his rule is over; the martyr dies and his rule begins.

Most people believe that the Christian commandments, e.g. to love one's neighbor as oneself, are intentionally a little too severe - like setting a clock half an hour ahead to make sure of not being late in the morning.

My depression is the most faithful mistress I have known - no wonder, then, that I return the love.

The tyrant dies and his rule is over; the martyr dies and his rule begins.

Who am I? How did I come into the world? Why was I not consulted?

The majority of people are subjective toward themselves and objective toward all others, terribly objective sometimes, but the real task is, in fact, to be objective toward oneself and subjective toward all others.