"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."
"An inventor is a man who asks 'Why?' of the universe and lets nothing stand between the answer and his mind."
"Definitions are the guardians of rationality, the first line of defense against the chaos of mental disintegration."
"The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities."
"Whatever their future, at the dawn of their lives, men seek a noble vision of man's nature and of life's potential."
"The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. Whenever evil wins, it is only by default: by the moral failure of those who evade the fact that there can be no compromise on basic principles."