Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper's bell of an approaching looter.

The end does not justify the means. No one's rights can be secured by the violation of the rights of others.

If you don't know, the thing to do is not to get scared, but to learn.

Courage and confidence are practical necessities . . . courage is the practical form of being true to existence, of being true to truth, and confidence is the practical form of being true to one’s own consciousness.

Happiness is not something you have in your hands; it's something you carry in your heart. Happiness is one thing that multiplies by division. Happiness is that peculiar sensation you acquire when you are too busy to be miserable. Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.

She knew that she could not have reached this white serenity except as the sum of all the colors, of all the violence she had known.

Freedom (n.): To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.