The overman...Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment.

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

There is always madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed.

There are two different types of people in the world, those who want to know, and those who want to believe.

I was in darkness, but I took three steps and found myself in paradise. The first step was a good thought, the second, a good word; and the third, a good deed.

There will always be rocks in the road ahead of us. They will be stumbling blocks or stepping stones; it all depends on how you use them.

You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.

I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.

Enjoy life. This is not a dress rehearsal.

The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.

She said that the planting of trees, like the education of children, was a gift to the future.

Those who believe that liberal democracy and the free market can be defended by the force of law and regulation alone, without an internalised sense of duty and morality, are tragically mistaken.

Digging deep inside you as a writer will damn near kill you at times. But in the end, your words will be true and undeniable for the reader, and that is all that ever really matters in writing.

Read a lot. Write a lot. Have fun.

I have a wife, I have sons; all these hostages have I given to fortune.

At the age of thirty-five, I have just begun to become the kind of person who could understand the kind of book I would want to write.

Katie commented that Americans had lost the ability to enjoy themselves. "We watch television," Dave said.

What's the point of having weak enemies? They just waste your time.

It’s like once everyone decides who you are, you’re locked into their version of you and that’s it.

Being good to somebody is just like being mean to somebody. Risky. You don't get nothing for it.