I could die for you. But I couldn't, and wouldn't, live for you.

Who was it that said he needed a fulcrum? Give me an unobstructed right-of-way and I'll show them how to move the earth!

The desire not to be anything is the desire not to be.

When one acts on pity against justice, it is the good whom one punishes for the sake of the evil; when one saves the guilty from suffering, it is the innocent whom one forces to suffer. There is no escape from justice, nothing can be unearned and unpaid for in the universe, neither in matter nor in spirit—and if the guilty do not pay, then the innocent have to pay it.

Only the man who extols the purity of love devoid of desire, is capable of the depravity of a desire devoid of love.

That which is not worth contemplating in life, is not worth recreating in art.

Those who say theory and practice are two unrelated realms are fools in one and scoundrels in the other.