There is nothing wrong in helping other people, if and when they are worthy of the help and you can afford to help them.

Life is the reward of virtue. And happiness is the goal and reward of life.

In any compromise between food and poison, it is only death that can win. In any compromise between good and evil, it is only evil that can profit.

When personal judgment is inoperative (or forbidden), men's first concern is not how to choose, but how to justify their choice

The man of authentic self-confidence is the man who relies on the judgment of his own mind. Such a man is not malleable; he may be mistaken, he may be fooled in a given instance, but he is inflexible in regard to the absolutism of reality, i.e., in seeking and demanding truth.

Every form has its own meaning. Every man creates his meaning and form and goal. Why is it so important - what others have done? Why does it become sacred by the mere fact of not being your own? Why is anyone and everyone right - so long as it's not yourself? Why does the number of those others take the place of truth? Why is truth made a mere matter of arithmetic - and only of addition at that? Why is everything twisted out of all sense to fit everything else? There must be some reason. I don't know. I've never known it. I'd like to understand.

A culture is made — or destroyed — by its articulate voices.