You can have anything in this world you want, if you want it badly enough and you're willing to pay the price.

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Thought is free.

No temptation can gravitate to a man unless there is that in his heart which is capable of responding to it.

Not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.

All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.

The battle for women's rights has been largely won.

A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it.

Some newspapers are fit only to line the bottom of bird cages.

When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.

The day of individual happiness has passed

If the world was perfect, it wouldn't be.

Don't send me flowers when I'm dead. If you like me, send them while I'm alive.

I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.

Will and intellect are one and the same thing.

In the increasingly convincing darkness the words become palpable, like a fruit that is too beautiful to eat.

It's better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone.

You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.

All is disgust when a man leaves his own nature and does what is unfit.

Once you label me you negate me.

Maybe, just once, someone will call me 'Sir' without adding, 'You're making a scene.'