Unjust laws have to be fought ideologically; they cannot be fought or corrected by means of mere disobedience and futile martyrdom.

When you force a man to act against his own choice and judgment, it's his thinking that you want him to suspend.

It's the hardest thing in the world - to do what we want. And it takes the greatest kinds of courage.

Faith is the commitment of one's consciousness to beliefs for which one has no sensory evidence or rational proof. A mystic is a man who treats his feelings as tools of cognition. Faith is the equation of feeling with knowledge.

She thought: at this moment, the glass stem between his fingers feels just like the one between mine. We have this much in common.

If a life can have a 'theme-song' - and I believe every worthwhile one has - mine is [best] expressed in one word: Individualism.

Every period ruled by mystics was an era of stagnation and want, when most men were on strike against existence.