The nation which once held the creed that greatness is achieved by production, is now told that it is achieved by squalor.

Kira, the highest thing in man is not his god. It's that in him which knows the reverence due a god. And you, Kira, are my highest reverence.

Do not set out to write with your eyes on the box office. It can't be done.

Place nothing above the verdict of your own mind.

Science was born as a result and consequence of philosophy; it cannot survive without a philosophical base. If philosophy perishes, science will be next to go.

Man's basic vice, the source of all his evils, is the act of unfocusing his mind, the suspension of his consciousness, which is not blindness, but the refusal to see, not ignorance, but the refusal to know.

There is only one source of authentic self-confidence: reason.