The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it

That love is reverence, and worship, and glory, and the upward glance. Not a bandage for dirty sores. But they don't know it. Those who speak of love most promiscuously are the ones who've never felt it. They make some sort of feeble stew out of sympathy, compassion, contempt, and general indifference, and they call it love. Once you've felt what it means to love as you and I know it - the total passion for the total height - you are unable of anything else

Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone

Love is the expression of one's values, the greatest reward you can earn for the moral qualities you have achieved in your character and person, the emotional price paid by one man for the joy he receives from the virtues of another.

Reality confronts man with a great many "musts," but all of them are conditional; the formula of realistic necessity is: "You must, if " and the "if" stands for man's choice

We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality

The man who lets a leader prescribe his course is a wreck being towed to the scrap heap

The purpose of the law is not to prevent a future offense, but to punish the one actually committed

Do not lose your knowledge that man's proper estate is an upright posture, an intransigent mind, and a step that travels unlimited roads

We are all brothers under the skin - and I, for one, would be willing to skin humanity to prove it