It is too early to feel fear of the future when one is under 30, and too late after that. What I mean is that one must never allow fear to become one's permanent sense of life. The important thing is to prepare yourself intellectually to deal with whatever circumstances you may encounter, which requires that you define your values fully, clearly and rationally -- and never betray them.

Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.

He had a big head and a face so ugly it became almost fascinating.

When men abandon reason, physical force becomes their only means of dealing with one another and of settling disagreements.

Individual rights are the means of subordinating society to moral law.

Don't bother to examine a folly-ask yourself only what it accomplishes.

People, he thought, were as hungry for a sight of joy as he had always been--for a moment's relief from that gray load of suffering which seemed so inexplicable and unnecessary. He had never been able to understand why men should be unhappy.