The quickest way to kill the human spirit is to ask someone to do mediocre work.

It was beautiful and rare, and you have every right to despise me." She stood pressed to the wall, not moving. "When you came in, I thought 'Send her away.' But I knew that if you went away, I'd run after you. I thought 'I won't say a word.' But I knew that you'd know it before you left. I love you. I know you'd think kindlier of me if I said that I hate you.

When the common good of a society is regarded as something apart from and superior to the individual good of its members, it means that the good of some men takes precedence over the good of others, with those others consigned to the status of sacrificial animals.

A mystic is a man who treats his feelings as tools of cognition.

I am interested in politics so that one day I will not have to be interested in politics.

You don't build for the way people live, but for the way they should live. I don't write about people as they are, but as they could be and should be.

Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive. Has any act of selfishness ever equalled the carnage perpetrated by disciples of altruism.