A moment or an eternity—did it matter? Life, undefeated, existed and could exist.

Mysticism requires the notion of the unknowable, which is revealed to some and withheld from others; this divides men into those who feel guilt and those who cash in on it.

When you force a man to act against his own choice and judgment, it's his thinking that you want him to suspend.

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

It is too early to feel fear of the future when one is under 30, and too late after that. What I mean is that one must never allow fear to become one's permanent sense of life. The important thing is to prepare yourself intellectually to deal with whatever circumstances you may encounter, which requires that you define your values fully, clearly and rationally -- and never betray them.

Thousands of years ago the first man discovered how to make fire. He was probably burnt at the stake he'd taught his brothers to light, but he left them a gift they had not conceived and he lifted darkness from the face of the Earth.

To hold an unchanging youth is to reach at the end, the vision with which one started.