The justice which would forgive miles of innocent errors of knowledge, would not forgive a single step taken in conscious evil.

Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.

We are born into this world unarmed - our mind is our only weapon.

Whenever a man denounces the mind, it is because his goal is of a nature the mind would not permit him to confess.

Live and act within the limit of your knowledge and keep expanding it to the limit of your life.

I started my life with a single absolute: that the world was mine to shape in the image of my highest values and never to be given up to a lesser standard, no matter how long or hard the struggle.

Power-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind.

I never found beauty in longing for the impossible and never found the possible to be beyond my reach.

Joy is the goal of existence, and joy is not to be stumbled upon, but to be achieved, and the act of treason is to let its vision drown in the swamp of the moment's torture.

The desire not to be anything is the desire not to be.

I think, therefore I'll think.

Just as pilots gain practice with flight simulators, people might acquire social experience by reading fiction.

Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart.

The cost of college should never discourage anyone from going after a valuable degree.

I'm going to create a - the kind of a country that we were from the standpoint of industry. We used to be there. We've given it up. We've become very, very sloppy.

Hannah wasn't my first kiss, but the first kiss that mattered: the first kiss with someone who mattered. (pg 222).

I feel like if writers used writing as therapy we'd have a ton of happy writers.

Great talents ripen late; the highest notes are hard to hear.

It may be very generous in one person to offer what it would be ungenerous in another to accept.

She stroked my hair and told me I was beautiful, but I was old enough by then to know not to believe it anymore.