Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil.

I obviously do everything to be "hard to understand" myself

The consequences of our actions take hold of us, quite indifferent to our claim that meanwhile we have 'improved.

In music the passions enjoy themselves.

The vanity of others runs counter to our taste only when it runs counter to our vanity.

One loves ultimately one's desires, not the thing desired.

A man who wills commands something within himself that renders obedience, or that he believes renders obedience.

Madness is something rare in individuals — but in groups, parties, peoples, and ages, it is the rule.

The maturity of man—that means, to have reacquired the seriousness that one had as a child at play

A soul that knows it is loved but does not itself love betrays its sediment: what is at bottom comes up."―Epigrams and Interludes, Section 79

When we have to change an opinion about any one, we charge heavily to his account the inconvenience he thereby causes us.

The first and most important person you must believe in is yourself.

I wouldn't describe myself as lacking in confidence, but I would just say that - the ghosts you chase you never catch.

Living with generosity creates a swelling tide that raises all ships. Not just yours; not just the other person's; everyone's.

When it comes to rapacious 19th century capitalism, my family's hands are clean.

I think people tend to feel odd when I do my act. Unless you are an ironic person, it's not a good place for you to be.

We are to extend forgiveness to others in the same way that God did to us: Unconditionally.

My family is my career.

[We need] to nurture the entrepreneurial spirit and the tremendous untapped potential in our prisons.

Long ago, I became more interested in the real world than in make-believe.

Whenever, therefore, people are deceived and form opinions wide of the truth, it is clear that the error has slid into their minds through the medium of certain resemblances to that truth.