"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."
"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?"
"Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness."
"The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities."
"Every form of happiness if one, every desire is driven by the same motor--by our love for a single value, for the highest potentiality of our own existence--and every achievement is an expression of it."
"Have you ever felt the longing for someone you could admire? For something, not to look down at, but up to?"