If we have never been amazed by the very fact that we exist, we are squandering the greatest fact of all.

To give life a meaning, one must have a purpose larger than self.

Contentment is rare among men as it is natural among animals

The individual succumbs, but he does not die if he has left something to mankind.

Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.

Freedom and equality are naturan born enemies.

Nature smiles at the union of freedom and equality in our utopias. For freedom and equality are sworn and everlasting enemies, and when one prevails the other dies.