The action required to sustain human life is primarily intellectual; everything man needs has to be discovered by his mind and produced by his effort.

Im waiting, for what, my kind of people, what kind is that, i can tell my kind of people by their faces, by something in their faces.

You don't build for the way people live, but for the way they should live. I don't write about people as they are, but as they could be and should be.

Devotion to the truth is the hallmark of morality; there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act of a man who assumes the responsibility of thinking.

Everyone has the right to make his own decisions, but none has the right to force his decision on others.

Then no rightful cause was left, and the pain of anger was turning into the shameful pain of submission. He had no right to condemn anyone - he thought - to denounce anything, to fight and die joyously, claiming the sanctity of virtue. The broken promises, the unconfessed desires, the betrayal, the deceit, the lies, the fraud - he was guilty of them all. What form of corruption could he scorn? Degrees do not matter, he thought; one does not bargain about inches of evil.

You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.