“Emotions are humanity's motivator and its omnipresent guide. (36)”

“It's your fiction that interests me. Your studies of the interplay of human motives and emotion.”

“unless the direction of science is guided by a consciously ethical motivation, especially compassion, its effects may fail to bring benefit. They may indeed cause great harm.”

“Revenge was the emptiest of emotions. Apparently it motivated people to do the stupidest things as well.”

“Though it may be the peculiar happiness of Socrates and other geniuses of his stamp, to reason themselves into virtue, the human species would long ago have ceased to exist, had it depended entirely for its preservation on the reasonings of the individuals that compose it." Par 1, 36”

“Never depend upon institutions or government to solve any problem. All social movements are founded by, guided by, motivated and seen through by the passion of individuals. ”