I saw that evil was impotent—that evil was the irrational, the blind, the anti-real—and that the only weapon of its triumph was the willingness of the good to serve it.

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

And man will go on. Man, not men.

There's nothing of any importance in life — except how well you do your work. Nothing. Only that. Whatever else you are, will come from that. It's the only measure of human value.

Contrary to the ecologists, nature does not stand still and does not maintain the kind of equilibrium that guarantees the survival of any particular species - least of all the survival of her greatest and most fragile product: man.

A culture is not the anonymous product of undifferentiate d masses, but the sum of the intellectual achievements of individual men.

The verdict you pronounce upon the source of your livelihood is the verdict you pronounce upon your life.