To the extent to which a man is rational, life is the premise directing his actions. To the extent to which he is irrational, the premise directing his actions is death.

Parties are intended to be celebrations, and celebrations should be only for those who have something to celebrate.

Just as there is no such thing as a collective or racial mind, so there is no such thing as a collective or racial achievement. There are only individual minds and individual achievements-an d a culture is not the anonymous product of undifferentiate d masses, but the sum of the intellectual achievements of individual men.

A rational man is guided by his thinking - by a process of Reason - not by his feelings and desires.

She started off, walking fast, as if the speed of her steps could give form to the things she felt.

I need no warrant for being, and no word of sanction upon my being. I am the warrant and the sanction.

Since there is no such entity as 'the public,' since the public is merely a number of individuals, the idea that 'the public interest' supersedes private interests and rights can have but one meaning: that the interests and rights of some individuals take precedence over the interests and rights of others.