You have chosen to risk your lives for the defense of this country. I will not insult you by saying that you are dedicated to selfless service--it is not a virtue in my morality. In my morality, the defense of one's country means that a man is personally unwilling to live as the conquered slave of any enemy, foreign or domestic. This is an enormous virtue.

One loses everything when one loses one's sense of humor.

A rational process is a moral process.

A mystic is a man who treats his feelings as tools of cognition.

I never found beauty in longing for the impossible and never found the possible to be beyond my reach.

Worry is a waste of emotional reserve".

It is my eyes which see, and the sight of my eyes grants beauty to the earth.