I want it real. I want to know that there is someone, somewhere, who wants it, too. Or else what is the use of seeing it, and working, and burning oneself for an impossible vision? A spirit, too, needs fuel. It can run dry

The only man never to be redeemed is the man without passion.

Only the man who does not need it, is fit to inherit wealth, the man who would make his fortune no matter where he started.

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

All life is a purposeful struggle, and your only choice is the choice of a goal.

Neither life nor happiness can be achieved by the pursuit of irrational whims.

The mark of an honest man... is that he means what he says and knows what he means.