Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.

The man of authentic self-confidence is the man who relies on the judgment of his own mind. Such a man is not malleable; he may be mistaken, he may be fooled in a given instance, but he is inflexible in regard to the absolutism of reality, i.e., in seeking and demanding truth.

An inventor is a man who asks 'Why?' of the universe and lets nothing stand between the answer and his mind.

A story is an end in itself. It is not written to teach, sell, explain or destroy anything. It is not written even to entertain. It is written as a man is born - an organic whole, dictated only by its own laws and its own necessity - an end in itself, not a means to an end.

Freedom of association includes the freedom not to associate.

Existence is Identity, Consciousness is Identification.

Those who say theory and practice are two unrelated realms are fools in one and scoundrels in the other.