It's not that I don't suffer, it's that I know the unimportance of suffering. I know that pain is to be fought and thrown aside, not to be accepted as part of one's soul and as a permanent scar across one's view of existence.

Aristotle may be regarded as the cultural barometer of Western history. Whenever his influence dominated the scene, it paved the way for one of history's brilliant eras; whenever it fell, so did mankind.

Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.

I hold that such a question can never arise except in a society of cannibals.

Do you know the hallmark of the second-rater? It's resentment of another man's achievement.

It is easier to donate a few thousand to charity and think oneself noble than to base self-respect on personal standards of personal achievement.

It is my eyes which see, and the sight of my eyes grants beauty to the earth.