"When we don't know who to hate, we hate ourselves."

"Someone bent on suicide won't have much sense of humor left."

"We're the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our Great War's a spiritual war... our Great Depression is our lives."

"Your birth is a mistake you'll spend your whole life trying to correct."

"Your parents, they give you your life, but then they try to give you their life."

"The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person."

"It's all very well in practice, but it will never work in theory."

"Memory is not wisdom; idiots can by rote repeat volumes. Yet what is wisdom without memory?"

"Conformity is the jailer of freedom, and the enemy of growth."

"The overman...Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment."

"How beautiful it is to do nothing, and then rest afterward."

"We grow because we struggle, we learn and overcome."