“If a man constantly aspires is he not elevated.”

“I don't aspire to be a good man. I aspire to be a whole man.”

“Music can elevate man to new heights. Especially elevator music.”

“Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.”

“I am fashionably unimpressed with the material world. I am moved by the beauty of aspiration, and I hope that I can elevate myself to the standards I have imposed on others.”

“One of the only coherent philosophical positions is revolt. It is a constant confrontation between man and his obscurity. It is not aspiration, for it is devoid of hope. We cannot influence fate: we will all die and our individual beings will be obliterated. But we have a choice in how we live. A living man can be enslaved and reduced to the historic condition of an object. But if he dies in refusing to be enslaved, he reaffirms the existence of another kind of human nature.”