“Freedom comes from seeing the ignorance of your critics and discovering the emptiness of their virtue.”

A man’s sexual choice is the result and the sum of his fundamental convictions.

Compromise does not satisfy, but dissatisfies everybody; it does not lead to any general fulfillment, but to general frustration; those who try to become everything to all people end up by not being anything to anyone.

Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone.

A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.

Devotion to the truth is the hallmark of morality; there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act of a man who assumes the responsibility of thinking.

The problem is not those who dream, but those who can only dream.

I love you so much that nothing can matter to me, not even you, only my love, not your answer, not even your indifference

It is a free market that makes monopolies impossible.

Do not help your jailers to pretend that their jail is your natural state of existence.

Love is reverence, and worship, and glory, and the upward glance.

You can ignore reality, but you can’t ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.

Patience is always rewarded and romance is always round the corner!

I started my life with a single absolute: that the world was mine to shape in the image of my highest values and never to be given up to a lesser standard, no matter how long or hard the struggle.

The entire history of science is a progression of exploded fallacies.

Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think that you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong.

Whoever claims the right to redistribute the wealth produced by others is claiming the right to treat human beings as chattel.

It’s always good to come back home.

Learning is hard. Unlearning is harder. Pretending that most of us don’t need to do either when it comes to racism is its own form of violence.

Today there are opportunities that no one knows if they will come round again in the future.

I love you now for what we’ve already shared, and I love you now in anticipation of all that’s to come.

I have fun like a child in the street. When the day comes when I’m not enjoying it, I will leave football.

If there ever comes a day when we can’t be together, keep me in your heart. I’ll stay there forever.

True love has the power of coming back.

Perhaps some day I’ll crawl back home, beaten, defeated. But not as long as I can make stories out of my heartbreak, beauty out of sorrow.