It is not enough that I succeed, everyone else must fail.

Remember that the secret of all learning is patience and that curiosity is not the same thing as a thirst for knowledge.

The bicycle is the most civilized conveyance known to man. Other forms of transport grow daily more nightmarish. Only the bicycle remains pure in heart.

The notion that one can liberate another soul from captivity is an illusion of the very young.

being homosexual doesn't determine a man's whole character any more than being heterosexual does.

We need a moral philosophy which can speak significantly of Freud and Marx and out of which aesthetic and political views can be generated. We need a moral philosophy in which the concept of love, so rarely mentioned now, can once again be made central.

Man's creative struggle, his search for wisdom and truth, is a love story.