The devil is compromise.

The sea possesses a power over one's moods that has the effect of a will. The sea can hypnotize. Nature in general can do so.

A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.

A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.

It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians.

The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom-they are the pillars of society.

The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.

Don't use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies.

The most dangerous enemy of the truth and freedom amongst us is the compact majority

...I'm no longer prepared to accept what people say and what's written in books. I must think things out for myself, and try to find my own answer.

I don't imagine you will dispute the fact that at present the stupid people are in an absolutely overwhelming majority all the world over.

People are crazy about food, smoking, drinking, girls but not about their dreams.

I am only one, but that is infinitely better than being none.

I hate to spoil my own prospects, but I really don't respect the kiss-and-tell approach to public life at all, not at all.

Rather than being a luxury, emotions are a very intelligent way of driving an organism toward certain outcomes.

You can do not just twice as much but 200 times as much when you have a good partner.

A mere society form of Atheism.

if I inflict wounds, I heal them.

I am not your dog, but if every time you saw me, you gave me a backrub, I would run to greet you, too.

Awards that ignore me are losers.

Your patriarchal blessing is your passport to peace in this life. It is a Liahona of light to guide you unerringly to your heavenly home.