"If that which we have found is the corruption of solitude, then what can men wish for save corruption? If this is the great evil of being alone, than what is good and what is evil?"
"Have you ever felt the longing for someone you could admire? For something, not to look down at, but up to?"
"Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values."
"Have you ever felt the longing for someone you could admire? For something, not to look down at, but up to?"
"Why do they always teach us that it's easy and evil to do what we want and that we need discipline to restrain ourselves? It's the hardest thing in the world--to do what we want. And it takes the greatest kind of courage. I mean, what we really want."
"Definitions are the guardians of rationality, the first line of defense against the chaos of mental disintegration."