Isn't it funny how day by day nothing changes, but when you look back, everything is different.

Extraordinary things only happen to extraordinary people. Maybe it's a sign that you've got an extraordinary destiny--something greater than you could've imagined.

They stormed and jeered at one another in long meaningless words of about twenty syllables each.

But in reading great literature I become a thousand men and yet remain myself. Like the night sky in the Greek poem, I see with a myriad eyes, but it is still I who see. Here, as in worship, in love, in moral action, and in knowing, I transcend myself; and am never more myself than when I do.

One of the marks of a certain type of bad man is that he cannot give up a thing himself without wanting everyone else to give it up.

We never find out the strength of the evil impulse inside us until we try to fight it.

A dogmatic belief in objective value is necessary to the very idea of a rule which is not tyranny or an obedience which is not slavery.