Don't ever give up what you want in life. The struggle is worth it.

Whenever anyone accuses some person of being 'unfeeling,' he means that that person is just.

Psychologically, the choice "to think or not" is the choice "to focus or not." Existentially, the choice "to focus or not" is the choice "to be conscious or not." Metaphysically, the choice "to be conscious or not" is the choice of life or death.

We the Living is not a novel 'about Soviet Russia.' It is a novel about Man against the State. Its basic theme is the sanctity of human life - using the word 'sanctity' not in a mystical sense, but in the sense of 'supreme value.'

Volumes can be and have been written about the issue of freedom versus dictatorship, but, in essence, it comes down to a single question: do you consider it moral to treat men as sacrificial animals and to rule them by physical force?

There are no little people in America. There are only people, equal before the law, yearning to breathe free and wanting to achieve the best within them.

Value is that which one acts to gain and/or keep. Virtue is the act by which one aims and/or keeps it.