The craving for equality can express itself either as a desire to pull everyone down to our own level (by belittling them, excluding them, tripping them up) or as a desire to raise ourselves up along with everyone else (by acknowledging them, helping them, and rejoicing in their success).

The life of the enemy . Whoever lives for the sake of combating an enemy has an interest in the enemy's staying alive.

When a woman has scholarly inclinations there is usually something wrong with her sexuality.

All idealists imagine that the causes they serve are fundamentally better than any other causes in the world, and they refuse to believe that if their cause is to flourish at all it requires precisely the same foul-smelling manure that is necessary to all other human undertakings.

It is a distinction to have many virtues, but a hard lot.

Art is essentially the affirmation, the blessing, and the deification of existence.

Enjoy life. This is not a dress rehearsal.