“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 truth is not for all men but only for those who seek it.

I swear by my life and my love of it that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.

I am done with this creed of corruption.

To love a woman for her virtues is meaningless.

You have been the one encounter in my life that can never be repeated.

Man will always be attracted to the woman who reflects his deepest vision of himself, the woman whose surrender permits him to experience a sense of self-esteem.

The essential characteristic of socialism is the denial of individual property rights.

She knew that even pain can be confessed, but to confess happiness is to stand naked, delivered to the witness.

People create their own questions because they are afraid to look straight. All you have to do is look straight and see the road, and when you see it, don’t sit looking at it – walk.

Racism is the lowest, most crudely primitive form of collectivism.

The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see.

Joy is the goal of existence, and joy is not to be stumbled upon, but to be achieved, and the act of treason is to let its vision drown in the swamp of the moment’s torture.

Indiscriminate tolerance and indiscriminate condemnation are not two opposites: they are two variants of the same evasion.

As we gain knowledge, we do not become more certain, we become certain of more.

Don’t ever give up what you want in life. The struggle is worth it.

Rationalization is a process of not perceiving reality, but of attempting to make reality fit one’s emotions.

No man should judge unless he asks himself in absolute honesty whether in a similar situation he might not have done the same.

I don’t think we have any alternative other than remaining optimistic. Optimism is an absolute necessity, even if it’s only optimism of the will, as Gramsci said, and pessimism of the intellect.

Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.

Train your mind from lack and limitations to absolute possibilities.  

Push your limit to the absolute extreme.

Chefs are nutters. They’re all self-obsessed, delicate, dainty, insecure little souls and absolute psychopaths. Every last one of them.

Freedom is the intrinsic desire of each man, each woman – utter freedom, absolute freedom.

I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect – in terror.