“Homo voluntatis cannot explain why some things that can be done should not be done.”

“Ideas are not intellectuals' toys: ideas have consequences, for good and for ill, in what even intellectuals sometimes call "the real world".”

“Freedom is the great organizing principle of a life lived in a truly human way.”

“Democracy is always an unfinished experiment, testing the capacity of each generation to live freedom nobly.”

“I have never done you injustice. Please remember me,” said Dorothea, repressing a rising sob.“Why should you say that?” said Will, with irritation. “As if I were not in danger of forgetting everything else.”

“A woman told me her child was autistic, and I thought she said artistic. So I said, 'Oh great. I'd like to see some of the things he's done.”

“Try everything that can be done.... Learn your own possibilities.”