What if a demon were to creep after you one night, in your loneliest loneness, and say, "This life which you live must be lived by you once again and innumerable times more; and every pain and joy and thought and sigh must come again to you, all in the same sequence. The eternal hourglass will again and again be turned-and you with it, dust of the dust!" Would you throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse that demon? Or would you answer, "Never have I heard anything more divine?"

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

Kites rise highest against the wind; not with it.

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.

The vision that you glorify in your mind, the Ideal that you enthrone in your heart - this you will build your life by, this you will become.

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.

I know in my heart that man is good, that what is right will always eventually triumph and that there is purpose and worth to each and every life.

I don’t think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains.

Glance into the world just as though time were gone and everything crooked will become straight to you.

Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.