The cult of moral grayness is a revolt against moral values.

Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.

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

Every form of happiness is private. Our greatest moments are personal, self-motivated, not to be touched".

Value is that which one acts to gain and/or keep. Virtue is the act by which one aims and/or keeps it.

She fell asleep, lying there, her hand clasping his. Her last awareness, before she surrendered the responsibility of consciousness, was the sense of an enormous void, the void of a city and of a continent, where she would never be able to find the man whom she had no right to seek.

She looked at the crowd and she felt simultaneously astonishment that they should stare at her when this event was so personally her own that no communication about it was possible and a sense of fitness that they should be here that they should want to see it. Because the sight of an achievement was the greatest gift a human being could offer to others.