Men have been taught that it is a virtue to stand together. But the creator is the man who stands alone.

The more you learn, the more you know that you know nothing.

A majority vote is not an epistemological validation of an idea. Voting is merely a proper political device--within a strictly, constitutionall y delimited sphere of action--for choosing the practical means of implementing a society’s basic principles. But those principles are not determined by vote.

Because, you see, God - whatever anyone chooses to call God - is one's highest conception of the highest possible. And whoever places his highest conception above his own possibility thinks very little of himself and his life. It's a rare gift, you know, to feel reverence for your own life and to want the best, the greatest, the highest possible, here, now, for your very own. To imagine a heaven and then not to dream of it, but to demand it.

In all proper relationships there is no sacrifice of anyone to anyone.

I agree that [marriage] should be treated like a business deal. But every business deal has to have its own terms and its own kind of currency.

For the first time since her return, she felt pain, a violent pain, but it made her feel alive, because it was worth feeling.