"Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us."

"To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people cannot eat it."

"Without knowing what I am and why I am here, it is impossible for me to live, and I cannot know that; therefore I cannot live."

"The only certain happiness in life is to live for others."

"The one thing that is necessary is to overcome the evil that is in us."