You'd let the whole world perish rather than soil that immaculate self of yours with a single spot of which you'd have to be ashamed.

It is my eyes which see, and the sight of my eyes grants beauty to the earth.

Since only an individual man can possess rights, the expression "individual rights"? is a redundancy (which one has to use for purposes of clarification in today's intellectual chaos). But the expression "collective rights"? is a contradiction in terms.

She did not know what it was about him that had always made her want to see him broken.

No matter how vast your knowledge or how modest, it is your own mind that has to acquire it. It is only with your own knowledge that you can deal. It is only your own knowledge that you can claim to possess or ask others to consider. Your mind is your only judge of truth - and if others dissent from your verdict, reality is the court of final appeal. Nothing but a man's mind can perform that complex, delicate, crucial process of identification which is thinking. Nothing can direct the process but his own judgment. Nothing can direct his judgment but his moral integrity.

If you want to feel good, be rational.

Even if smog were a risk to human life, we must remember that life in nature, without technology, is wholesale death.