We are all brothers under the skin - and I, for one, would be willing to skin humanity to prove it.

When she had gone upstairs, he walked to a window and stood looking up at the sky. His head thrown back, he felt the pull of his throat muscles and he wondered whether the peculiar solemnity of looking at the sky comes, not from what one contemplates, but from that uplift of one's head.

Man—every man—is an end in himself, not a means to the ends of others; he must live for his own sake, neither sacrificing himself to others nor sacrificing others to himself; he must work for his rational self-interest, with the achievement of his own happiness as the highest moral purpose of his life.

There are no little people in America. There are only people, equal before the law, yearning to breathe free and wanting to achieve the best within them.

An inventor is a man who asks 'Why?' of the universe and lets nothing stand between the answer and his mind.

You know what you are actually in love with? Integrity. The impossible. The clean, consistent, reasonable, self-faithful, the all-of-one-style, like a work of art.

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