"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."
"He is free to evade reality, he is free to unfocus his mind and stumble blindly down any road he pleases, but not free to avoid the abyss he refuses to see."
"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."
"When I die, I hope to go to Heaven, whatever the Hell that is."
"Whatever their future, at the dawn of their lives, men seek a noble vision of man's nature and of life's potential."
"The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me."