The worst guilt is to accept an undeserved guilt — and that is what you have been doing all your life.

I know not if this earth on which I stand is the core of the universe or if it is but a speck of dust lost in eternity. I know not and I care not. For I know what happiness is possible to me on earth. And my happiness needs no higher aim to vindicate it. My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own purpose.

The degree of a country's freedom is the degree of its prosperity.

every man is free to rise as far as he's able or willing, but the degree to which he thinks determines the degree to which he'll rise.

There's only one passion in most artists more violent than their desire for admiration: their fear of identifying the nature of such admiration as they do receive.

Since reason is man’s basic means of survival, that which is proper to the life of a rational being is the good; that which negates, opposes or destroys it is the evil.

Place nothing above the verdict of your own mind.