You don't know how hard I've tried to be left standing all by myself.

Some day, the world will discover that, without thought, there can be no love.

There is a fundamental conviction which some people never acquire, some hold only in their youth, and a few hold to the end of their days-the conviction that ideas matter . . . . That ideas matter means that knowledge matters, that truth matters, that one's mind matters . . .

She sat leaning back in her chair, looking ahead, knowing that he was as aware of her as she was of him. She found pleasure in the special self-consciousness it gave her. When she crossed her legs, when she leaned on her arm against the window sill, when she brushed her hair off her forehead - every movement of her body was underscored by a feeling the unadmitted words for which were: Is he seeing it?

The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.

Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able to reach.

Those who say theory and practice are two unrelated realms are fools in one and scoundrels in the other.