So to conduct one's life as to realize oneself-this seems to me the highest attainment possible to a human being. It is the task of one and all of us, but most of us bungle it.

The sea possesses a power over one's moods that has the effect of a will. The sea can hypnotize. Nature in general can do so.

A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.

A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.

It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians.

The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom-they are the pillars of society.

The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.

Don't use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies.

The most dangerous enemy of the truth and freedom amongst us is the compact majority

...I'm no longer prepared to accept what people say and what's written in books. I must think things out for myself, and try to find my own answer.

I don't imagine you will dispute the fact that at present the stupid people are in an absolutely overwhelming majority all the world over.

What has been is no more. Change has come.

I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept.

If I liked food and disliked exercise as much as a 400 pound guy, I'd be a 400 pound guy.

To experience a little hunger now and then can be a beautiful reminder of the deeper hunger of our souls.

Use soft words in hard arguments.

My seminar is for highschool students, decent undergraduates, bright graduates, and outstanding professors.

There are no negro problems, or Polish problems, or Jewish problems, or Greek problems, or women's problems, there are HUMAN PROBLEMS”.

Real success is making art your whole life.

There is no advance without strife.

Rule #76: No excuses. Play like a champion!