One must differentiate between one's thoughts and one's emotions with full clarity and precision...No discussion, cooperation, agreement, or understanding is possible among men who substitute emotion for proof.

To abstain from condemning a torturer, is to become an accessory to the torture and murder of his victims.

Every loneliness is a pinnacle

The great creators-the thinkers, the artists, the scientists, the inventors-stood alone against the men of their time.

Why have you been staring at me ever since we met? Because I’m not the Gail Wynand you’d heard about. You see, I love you. And love is exception-making. If you were in love you’d want to be broken, trampled, ordered, dominated, because that’s the impossible, in the inconceivable for you in your relations with people. That would be the one gift, the great exception you’d want to offer the man you loved. But it wouldn’t be easy for you.

You don't love causes. You don't love everybody indiscriminately. You love only those who deserve it.

Faith and force ... are corollaries: every period of history dominated by mysticism, was a period of statism, of dictatorship, of tyranny.