A man who is free is like a mangy sheep in a herd. He will contaminate my entire kingdom and ruin my work.

Every word has consequences. Every silence, too.

I respect orders but I respect myself too and I do not obey foolish rules made especially to humiliate me.

Something begins in order to end: an adventure doesn't let itself be extended it achieves significance only through its death.

We are our choices.

What never vary are the necessities of being in the world, of having to labor and to die there.

The individual's duty is to do what he wants to do, to think whatever he likes, to be accountable to no one but himself, to challenge every idea and every person.