A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.

Defiance is beautiful. The defiance of power, especially great or overwhelming power, exalts and glorifies the rebel.

My own ambition, my deepest and truest ambition, is to find within myself someday, somehow, the ability to do likewise, to do NOTHING - and find it enough.

The ideal society can be described, quite simply, as that in which no man has the power of means to coerce others.

Each thing in its way, when true to its own character, is equally beautiful. (p 41)

The love of a man for his wife, his child, of the land where he lives and works, is for me the real meaning of mystical experience.

Epitaphs for a gravestone: 'Please: no hooliganism'; or 'Es prohibe se hace agua aqui'; or 'No comment'.