The charming aspect of Christmas is the fact that it expresses good will in a cheerful, happy, benevolent, non-sacrificial way.

Love, friendship, respect, admiration are the emotional response of one man to the virtues of another, the spiritual payment given in exchange for the personal, selfish pleasure which one man derives from the virtues of another man’s character.

The purpose of man's life...is to become an abject zombie who serves a purpose he does not know, for reasons he is not to question.

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

I regret nothing. There have been things I missed, but I ask no questions, because I have loved it, such as it has been, even the moments of emptiness, even the unanswered-and that I loved it, that is the unanswered in my life.

There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil.

Only the man who extols the purity of love devoid of desire, is capable of the depravity of a desire devoid of love.