There is nothing more productive of problems than a really good solution.

I’m not afraid of the darkness outside. It’s the darkness inside houses I don’t like.

Neither man nor any animal can enjoy life to the full without taking some risks to life or limb.

I was taking the bad boy off the market for good.

When Zarathustra was alone . . . he said to his heart: "Could it be possible! This old saint in the forest hath not yet heard of it, that God is dead!"

To be a rebel is not to be a revolutionary. It is more often by a way of spinning one's wheels deeper in sand.

You think that way as you begin to get grayer and you see pretty plainly that the game is not going to end as you planned.

The first snow always startles. It covers the tricycle in the driveway, turning its frame into an abstact sculpture that says: See how quickly yesterday turns into today.

The gods are strange. It is not our vices only they make instruments to scourge us. They bring us to ruin through what in us is good, gentle, humane, loving.

Talk radio is running America. We have to deal with that problem.

It is the soldier and the army, not parliamentary majorities and decisions, that have welded the German Empire together. I put my trust in the army.