Excellence means when a man or woman asks of himself more than others do.

An 'unemployed' existence is a worse negation of life than death itself.

This is the gravest danger that today threatens civilization: State intervention; the absorption of all spontaneous social effort by the State, that is to say, of spontaneous historical action, which in the long run sustains, nourishes, and impels human destinies.

Life is a series of collisions with the future.

We cannot put off living until we are ready.

Nobility is defined by the demands it makes on us - by obligations, not by rights. Noblesse oblige. 'To live as one likes is plebeian; the noble man aspires to order and law.'

The heart of man does not tolerate an absence of the excellent and supreme.