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

"We meet no ordinary people in our lives."

"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."

"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."

"One of the most cowardly things ordinary people do is to shut their eyes to facts."

"Once people stop believing in God, the problem is not that they will believe in nothing; rather, the problem is that they will believe anything."