Every form of happiness is private. Our greatest moments are personal, self-motivated, not to be touched".

Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.

The Romanticists predominantly, were enemies of capitalism, which they regarded as a prosaic, materialistic, “petty bourgeois” system — never realizing that it was the only system that could make freedom, individuality and the pursuit of values possible in practice.

Everyone has the right to make his own decisions, but none has the right to force his decision on others.

There is no difference between communism and socialism, except in the means of achieving the same ultimate end: communism proposes to enslave men by force, socialism - by vote. It is merely the difference between murder and suicide.

Because, you see, God - whatever anyone chooses to call God - is one's highest conception of the highest possible. And whoever places his highest conception above his own possibility thinks very little of himself and his life. It's a rare gift, you know, to feel reverence for your own life and to want the best, the greatest, the highest possible, here, now, for your very own. To imagine a heaven and then not to dream of it, but to demand it.

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.