Ideas are the greatest and most crucially practical power on earth.

It is not fools that I seek to address.

She had won the battle against her memories. But one form of torture remained, untouched by the years, the torture of the word "why?

Man has been called a rational being, but rationality is a matter of choice... Man has to be a man-by choice; he has to hold his life as a value-by choice; he has to learn to sustain it-by choice; he has to discover the values it requires and practice his virtues by choice. A code of values accepted by choice is a code of morality.

The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.

A building has integrity, just as a man and just as seldom! It must be true to its own idea, have its own form, and serve its own purpose!

It is not death that we wish to avoid, but life that we wish to live.