He wanted nothing, for the time being, except to understand .... Without advice, assistance or plan, he began reading an incongruous assortment of books; he would find some passage which he could not understand in one book, and he would get another on that subject .... There was no order in his reading; but there was order in what remained of it in his mind.

Action without thought is mindlessness, and thought without action is hypocritical.

Political freedom cannot exist without economic freedom; a free mind and a free market are corollaries.

Love is our response to our highest values.

If you tell an ugly woman that she is beautiful, you offer her the great homage of corrupting the concept of beauty.

I take no pride in hopeless longing; I wouldn't hold a stillborn aspiration. I'd want to have it, to make it, to live it.

If you get caught at some crucial point and somebody tells you that your doctrine doesn't make sense - you're ready for him. You tell him there's something above sense. That here he must not try to think, he must feel. He must believe. Suspend reason and you can play it deuces wild.