What a person wills and not what they know determines their worth or unworth, power or impotence, happiness or unhappiness.

Authority has every reason to fear the skeptic, for authority can rarely survive in the face of doubt.

Only by being permitted to experience the consequences of his actions will the child acquire a sense of responsibility; and within the limits marked by the demands of his safety this must be done.

Schools vast factories for the manufacture of robots.

In the crowd, herd, or gang, it is a mass-mind that operates-which is to say, a mind without subtlety, a mind without compassion, a mind, finally, uncivilized.

Mass Man, the universal psychopath, is born when the individual ego is weakened to the point at which it loses separate identity and is forced, for security, to merge with the mass.

Conformity, humility, acceptance with these coins we are to pay our fares to paradise.

It is characteristic of all movements and crusades that the psychopathic element rises to the top.

As a dimension of man, rebellion actually defines him.

It is in solitude that the works of hand, heart and mind are always conceived, and in solitude that individuality must be affirmed.

Non-conformism is the major, perhaps the only, sin of our time.

A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it.

Nobody is going to hand you success. You have to hand yourself to success.

It’s hardly ever that I am hurt by something in only one dimension.

I'm losing what i don't deserve..

The Ninysh might have resisted a bit harder. I don't mean to imply that they were cowards..., " Maurizio said shrugging, clearly implying that the Ninysh were cowards.

Every major question in history is a religious question. It has more effect in molding life than nationalism or a common language.

Our real illiteracy is our inability to create

Chocolate is cheaper than therapy, and you don't need an appointment.

Every story you tell is your own story.

I'm inspired by playwrights, novelists, poets: The value of language has been a lifelong passion of mine. I enjoy it. I'm good at it.