When a man feels fear without reason, you call him to the attention of a psychiatrist; you are not so careful to protect the meaning, the nature and the dignity of love.

"Mediocrity" doesn't mean average intelligence, it means an average intelligence that resents and envies its betters.

Money will not purchase happiness for the man who has no concept of what he wants.

There is a fundamental moral difference between a man who sees his self-interest in production and a man who sees it in robbery. The evil of a robber does not lie in the fact that he pursues his own interests, but in what he regards as to his own interest; not in the fact that he pursues his values, but in what he chose to value; not in the fact that he wants to live, but in the fact that he wants to live on a subhuman level.

I will not die, it's the world that will end." paraphrase of unknown philosopher

I need no warrant for being, and no word of sanction upon my being. I am the warrant and the sanction.

She looked at the crowd and she felt simultaneously astonishment that they should stare at her when this event was so personally her own that no communication about it was possible and a sense of fitness that they should be here that they should want to see it. Because the sight of an achievement was the greatest gift a human being could offer to others.