Stay disciplined, work hard, always believe in your dreams and go after them.
This [service to oppressed] is the writer's task, and, if he fulfills it as he should, he acquires no merit from it.
He who asks a question is a fool for a minute; he who does not remains a fool forever. When you realize that by changing your perspective, big things can be seen as little things, it becomes much harder to worry about anything. Commitment is an act, not a word.
Once freedom lights its beacon in man's heart, the gods are powerless against him.
Man is nothing else but what he purposes, he exists only in so far as he realizes himself, he is therefore nothing else but the sum of his actions, nothing else but what his life is.
If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.
What is life but an unpleasant interruption to a peaceful nonexistence.
There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.
This would have been a great game to watch if we didn't have any money on it.
The mutual confidence on which all else depends can be maintained only by an open mind and a brave reliance upon free discussion.
The most valuable things in life can't be bought with money.