"Remember that you must never sell your..." - Quote by Fyodor Dostoevsky

“But it's precisely in this cold, loathsome half-despair, half-belief, in this deliberate burying of yourself underground for forty years out of sheer pain, in this assiduously constructed, and yet somewhat dubious hopelessness, in all this poision of unfulfilled desires turned inward, this fever of vacillations, of resolutions adopted for eternity, and of repentances a moment later that you find the very essence of that strange, sharp pleasure.”

“But man is so addicted to systems and to abstract conclusions that he is prepared deliberately to distort the truth, to close his eyes and ears, but justify his logic at all cost.”

“Two and two make four. Nature doesn't ask your advice. She isn't interested in your preferences or whether or not you approve of her laws. You must accept nature as she is with all the consequences that that implies.”

“The determined scholar and the man of virtue will not seek to live at the expense of injuring their virtue. They will even sacrifice their lives to preserve their virtue complete.”

“If you set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.”

“A leader is useless when he acts against the promptings of his own conscience.”

“Meanings of all songs come after they are recorded. Someone else has to interpret them”

“The poorest experience is rich enough for all the purposes of expressing thought”

“If I haven't any talent for writing books or newspaper articles, well, then I can always write for myself.”