In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable.

You can become an even more excellent person by constantly setting higher and higher standards for yourself and then by doing everything possible to live up to those standards.

What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood.

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must like men undergo the fatigue of supporting it.

Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

I shall assume that your silence gives consent.

An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.

Not only is the self entwined in society, it owes society its existence in the most literal sense.

We are what our thoughts have made us, so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live, they travel far.

Everything I have my career my success my family I owe to America.

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