No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy.

We may be together for another six months—a year—there’s no knowing. At the end we’re certain to be apart. Do you realize how utterly alone we shall be?

Pessimism is reactionary because it makes the very idea of improving the world impossible.

Never use a long word where a short one will do.

I think I exist,' he said wearily. 'I am conscious of my own identity. I was born, and I shall die. I have arms and legs. I occupy a particular point in space. No other solid object can occupy the same point simultaneously.

[...] you can get anything in this world if you genuinely don't want it.

You are imagining that there is something called human nature which will be outraged by what we do and will turn against us. But we create human nature. Men are infinitely malleable.