It's when we face for a moment the worst our kind can do, and shudder to know the taint in our own selves, that awe cracks the mind's shell and enters the heart.
We may be so eager to protect the right to dissent that we lose sight of the difference between dissent and subversion.
Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one un-American act that could most easily defeat us.
Books and all forms of writing are terror to those who wish to suppress the truth.
Before you react, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you criticize, wait. Before you quit, try.
Shut your eyes and see.
Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.
The most important thing in life is to stop saying 'I wish' and start saying 'I will.' Consider nothing impossible, then treat possibilities as probabilities.
Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.
I have no right to call myself one who knows. I was one who seeks, and I still am, but I no longer seek in the stars or in books; I'm beginning to hear the teachings of my blood pulsing within me. My story isn't pleasant, it's not sweet and harmonious like the invented stories; it tastes of folly and bewilderment, of madness and dream, like the life of all people who no longer want to lie to themselves.
or simply:
