...I'm no longer prepared to accept what people say and what's written in books. I must think things out for myself, and try to find my own answer.

Was the majority right when they stood by while Jesus was crucified? Was the majority right when they refused to believe that the earth moved around the sun and let Galileo be driven to his knees like a dog? It takes fifty years for the majority to be right. The majority is never right until it does right.

It is not by spectacular achievements that man can be transformed, but by will.

Happiness is worth a daring deed; we are both free if we but will it, and then the game is won.

You see, there are some people that one loves, and others that perhaps one would rather be with.

Before I write down one word, I have to have the character in my mind through and through. I must penetrate into the last wrinkle of his soul.

The majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right.