Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.
Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.
Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find the right road.
If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer.
Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
Life yields only to the conqueror. Never accept what can be gained by giving in. You will be living off stolen goods, and your muscles will atrophy.
Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.
The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others.
Only he deserves power who every day justifies it.
Your body must become familiar with its death - in all its possible forms and degrees - as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.
There is a point at which everything becomes simple and there is no longer any question of choice, because all you have staked will be lost if you look back. Life's point of no return.
Everything will be all right - you know when? When people, just people, stop thinking of the United Nations as a weird Picasso abstraction and see it as a drawing they made themselves.
Destiny is something not be to desired and not to be avoided. a mystery not contrary to reason, for it implies that the world, and the course of human history, have meaning.
Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.
It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy - from lack of character.