Don't worry. They're all against me. But I have one advantage: they don't know what they want. I do.

Whenever anyone accuses some person of being 'unfeeling,' he means that that person is just.

Self-esteem is reliance on one's power to think... The man of authentic self-confidence is the man who relies on the judgment of his own mind.

Because the beauty of the human body is that it hasn't a single muscle which doesn't serve its purpose; that there's not a line wasted; that every detail of it fits one idea, the idea of a man and the life of a man.

Professional intellectuals are the voice of a culture and are, therefore, its leaders, its integrators and its bodyguards.

Ask yourself why totalitarian dictatorships find it necessary to pour money and effort into propaganda for their own helpless, chained, gagged slaves, who have no means of protest or defense. The answer is that even the humblest peasant or the lowest savage would rise in blind rebellion, were he to realize that he is being immolated, not to some incomprehensible noble purpose, but to plain, naked human evil.

It is a sin to write this.