"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."
"The truth is not for all men but only for those who seek it."
"A culture is made — or destroyed — by its articulate voices."
"Aristotle may be regarded as the cultural barometer of Western history. Whenever his influence dominated the scene, it paved the way for one of history's brilliant eras; whenever it fell, so did mankind."
"Have you ever felt the longing for someone you could admire? For something, not to look down at, but up to?"
"Man is an end in himself."