Love is not self-sacrifice, but the most profound assertion of your own needs and values. It is for your own happiness that you need the person you love, and that is the greatest compliment, the greatest tribute you can pay to that person.

They had rejected the soul-body dichotomy, with its two corollaries: the impotence of man's mind and the damnation of this earth; they had rejected the doctrine of suffering as man's metaphysical fate, they proclaimed man's right to the pursuit of happiness and were determined to establish on earth the conditions required for man's proper existence, by the "unaided" power of their intellect.

The more you learn, the more you know that you know nothing.

Every government interference in the economy consists of giving an unearned benefit, extorted by force, to some men at the expense of others.

You know, I think that only if one feels immensely important can one feel truly light.

When a man declares: "There are no blacks and whites [in morality]" he is making a psychological confession, and what he means is: "I am unwilling to be wholly good - and please don't regard me as wholly evil!"

An attempt to achieve the good by force is like an attempt to provide a man with a picture gallery at the price of cutting out his eyes.