“Nothing has more strength than dire necessity.”

“And so my thoughts have lead me to believe that childless men and women lead lives more fortunate than those with sons and daughters.”

“Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing.”

“Nothing is hopeless; we must hope for everything.”

“Knowledge is not wisdom: cleverness is not, not without awareness of our death, not without recalling just how brief our flare is. He who overreaches will, in his overreaching, lose what he possesses, betray what he has now. That which is beyond us, which is greater than the human, the unattainably great, is for the mad, or for those who listen to the mad, and then believe them.”

“The company of just and righteous men is better than wealth and a rich estate.”

“I would rather die on my feet than live on my knees.”