One mark of a great man is the power of making lasting impressions upon people he meets.

Now I think, speaking roughly, by leadership we mean the art of getting someone else to do something that you want done because he wants to do it, not because your position of power can compel him to do it, or your position of authority.

Even great spirits have only their five-fingers' breadth of experience - just beyond it their thinking ceases and their endless empty space and stupidity begins.

I climb upon the highest mountains, laughing at all tragedies - whether real or imaginary.

What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself in man.

In the end things must be as they are and have always been - the great things remain for the great, the abysses for the profound, the delicacies and thrills for the refined, and, to sum up shortly, everything rare for the rare.