“Self-expression is the dominant necessity of human nature.”

“Ambition has but one reward for all: A little power, a little transient fame, a grave to rest in, and a fading name!”

“There is nothing worse than a proud stoic. -- The Big Why”

“In the Koran, the first thing God said to Muhammed was 'Read.”

“Right is right, even if you're alone.”

“But all sudden things come from a deep study of conversion -- they are sudden only on the surface.”

“Sometimes you had to be who you were and endure what happened to you, and to you alone, before you could understand the first thing about it.”