Power-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind.

She knew that she could not have reached this white serenity except as the sum of all the colors, of all the violence she had known.

Man cannot survive except through his mind. He comes on earth unarmed. His brain is his only weapon. Animals obtain food by force. man had no claws, no fangs, no horns, no great strength of muscle. He must plant his food or hunt it. To plant, he needs a process of thought. To hunt, he needs weapons,and to make weapons - a process of thought. From this simplest necessity to the highest religious abstraction, from the wheel to the skyscraper, everything we are and we have comes from a single attribute of man -the function of his reasoning mind.

We are now moving towards complete collectivism or socialism, a system under which everybody is enslaved to everybody.

My dear fellow, who will let you?" "That's not the point. The point is, who will stop me?

The attack on "selfishness" is an attack on man's self-esteem; to surrender one, is to surrender the other.

I would step in the way of a bullet if it were aimed at my husband. It is not self-sacrifice to die protecting that which you value: If the value is great enough, you do not care to exist without it.