"To some extent I liken slavery to death."

"Not cohabitation but consensus constitutes marriage."

"Those wars are unjust which are undertaken without provocation. For only a war waged for revenge or defense can be just."

"The study and knowledge of the universe would somehow be lame and defective were no practical results to follow."

"It is only in our decisions that we are important."

"I'm attracted to pathos, because life is mostly pathos. I've had a lot of it in my life."

"For even in dreams a good deed is not lost."

"It is not the end of the physical body that should worry us. Rather, our concern must be to live while we're alive - to release our inner selves from the spiritual death that comes with living behind a facade designed to conform to external definitions of who and what we are."