"Blessed are the forgetful, for they get the best even of their blunders."

"The quest for philosophy's beginning is idle, for everywhere in all beginnings we find only the crude, the unformed, the empty, and the ugly. What matters in all things is the higher levels."

"He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you."

"What does not kill me, makes me stronger."

"One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed."

"Who is better, they who promote truth over happiness, or happiness over truth?"

"We must have infinite faith in each other. If we have not, we must never let it leak out that we have not."

"To sin in silence while others doth protest makes cowards out of men."

"Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do."

"The most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek."

"If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours."

"A large section of the intelligentsia seems wholly devoid of intelligence."