Freedom or prison--what's the difference? A man must develop unwavering will power subject only to his reason.

Satiety depends not at all on how much we eat, but on how we eat. It's the same with happiness, the very same...happiness doesn't depend on how many external blessings we have snatched from life. It depends only on our attitude toward them. There's a saying about it in the Taoist ethic: 'Whoever is capable of contentment will always be satisfied.

It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes... we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions - especially selfish ones.

I will tell you something else: it is a major responsibility not only of portraiture but of all human communication for each of us to help everyone else discover the best that is in him.

I would rather have the United States as the world's policeman than the Soviet Union as the world's jailer.

... the inexorable lesson of centuries: suffering must be borne; there is no way out.

Communism will never be halted by negotiations or through the machinations of detente. It can only be halted by force from without or by disintegration from within.