Anyone who fights for the future, lives in it today worry is a waste of emotional reserve.
I came here to say that I do not recognize anyone's right to one minute of my life.
Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.
It was the greatest sensation of existence: not to trust but to know.
The worst guilt is to accept an unearned guilt.
Money will not purchase happiness for the man who has no concept of what he wants.
I don't wish to be the symbol of anything. I'm only myself.
The man who damns money has obtained it dishonourably; the man who respects it has earned it.
For the first time since her return, she felt pain, a violent pain, but it made her feel alive, because it was worth feeling.
Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death.
But you see, the measure of hell you're able to endure is the measure of your love.
Never ask people about your work.
Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artists metaphysical value judgements.
Power-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind.
One loses everything when one loses one's sense of humour.
Rationalization is a process of not perceiving reality, but of attempting to make reality fit one’s emotions.
If one's actions are honest, one does not need the predated confidence of others.
Have you ever felt the longing for someone you could admire? For something, not to look down at, but up to?
But why should you care what people will say? All you have to do is please yourself.
I think, therefore I'll think
The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.
I worship individuals for their highest possibilities as individuals and I loathe humanity for its failure to live up to these possibilities.
I never found beauty in longing for the impossible and never found the possible to be beyond my reach.
You have been the one encounter in my life that can never be repeated.
Never think of pain or danger or enemies a moment longer than is necessary to fight them.
The truth is not for all men but only for those who seek it.
You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.
The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone.
If you don't know, the thing to do is not to get scared, but to learn.
To say "I love you" one must know first how to say the "I".