“The one person who has more illusions than the dreamer is the man of action.”

“There has been no single influence which has done more to prevent man from finding God and rebuilding his character, has done more to lower the moral tone of society than the denial of personal guilt. This repudiation of man’s personal responsibility for his action is falsely justified in two ways: by assuming that man is only an animal and by giving a sense of guilt the tag “morbid.”

“But it's possible to love more than one person at a time, Bella. I've seen it in action.”

“Never question the power of one! Throughout history it has been the actions of only one person who has in inspired the movement of change.”

“An honest man is one who knows that he can't consume more than he has produced.”

“A man's ethnic identity has more to do with a personal awareness than with geography.”