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

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.

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

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

...all of our laments could not add a single second to her life, not one additional beat of the heart, nor a breath.

Aline!" Isabelle looked appalled. "You can't just go around asking people what it's like to be a vampire.

It is strange how the memory of a man may float to posterity on what he would have himself regarded as the most trifling of his works.

Being generous or doing things for others actually makes me feel good so I don't do it because I hope karma will come round and get me and I'll benefit from it.

America is stronger than any state probably since the Roman Empire. But we can't do what used to be done with that kind of strength.

I'm a big fan of the Pixar movies, and Ed Catmull, who wrote a book about his experiences producing them, talks about how it takes three or four years to get it right.

Thoughts exchanged by one and another are not the same in one room as in another.

Reason bears disgrace, courage combats it, patience surmounts it.