“What does your conscience say? – ‘You should become the person you are.”

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?

The worst enemy you can meet will always be yourself

The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.

It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.

Every deep thinker is more afraid of being understood than of being misunderstood.

One must be a sea, to receive a polluted stream without becoming impure.

The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.

You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.

One must shed the bad taste of wanting to agree with many.

Faith: not wanting to know what the truth is.

One ought to hold on to one’s heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.

I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.

Meaning and morality of one’s life come from within oneself.

Women make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.

Ultimately, it is the desire, not the desired, that we love.

Precisely at the point when you begin to develop a conscience you must find yourself at war with your society.

Conscience is a man’s compass.

Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.

Conscience is God present in man.

When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?

You ask me what forces me to speak? a strange thing; my conscience.

We built a coalition of conscience, and that we can do it again, and we can go forward, and help redeem the soul of America.

A quiet conscience makes one strong!