"I need no warrant for being, and no word of sanction upon my being. I am the warrant and the sanction."

"I am. I think. I will."

"There is no such thing as duty. If you know that a thing is right, you want to do it. If you don't want to do it—it i…"

"There is only one thing that matters and that we'll remember. The rest doesn't matter. I don't care what life is to b…"

"Do you believe in God, Andrei? No. Neither do I. But that's a favorite question of mine. An upside-down question, you…"

"The highest thing in a man is not his god. It's that in him which knows the reverence due a god. You are my highest r…"

"It is futile to fight against, if one does not know what one is fighting for."

"I hope you will understand my hesitation in writing to one whom I admire as the greatest representative of a philosop…"

"In the temple of his spirit, each man is alone."

"And now I see the face of god, and I raise this god over the earth, this god whom men have sought since men came into…"