“A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world. ”

“There is an ideal of excellence for any particular craft or occupation; similarly there must be an excellent that we can achieve as human beings. That is, we can live our lives as a whole in such a way that they can be judged not just as excellent in this respect or in that occupation, but as excellent, period. Only when we develop our truly human capacities sufficiently to achieve this human excellent will we have lives blessed with happiness.”

“Every human being must have a point at which he stands against the culture, where he says, this is me and the damned world can go to hell.”

“You must learn to forgive a man when he's in love. He's always a nuisance.”

“The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited, he must not make himself a nuisance to other people.”

“Everyone must work to live, but the purpose of life is to serve and to show compassion and the will to help others. Only then have we ourselves become true human beings.”