When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.

Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

There are horrible people who, instead of solving a problem, tangle it up and make it harder to solve for anyone who wants to deal with it. Whoever does not know how to hit the nail on the head should be asked not to hit it at all.

Anyone who has declared someone else to be an idiot, a bad apple, is annoyed when it turns out in the end that he isn't.

In heaven, all the interesting people are missing.

One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.

When one has not had a good father, one must create one.

In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play.

There are no facts, only interpretations.

A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.

Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.

And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.

The word 'Christianity' is already a misunderstanding - in reality there has been only one Christian, and he died on the Cross.

Blessed are the forgetful: for they get the better even of their blunders.

The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy.

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

Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings - always darker, emptier and simpler.

Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal.

You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.

Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.