"Understanding reality is the most important thing because reality doesn't care what you want to be true."

"Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality."

"A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you."

"Don't judge a man by where he is, because you don't know how far he has come."

"A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading."

"Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil."