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

When I die, I hope to go to Heaven, whatever the Hell that is.

Any group or "collective", large or small, is only a number of individuals. A group can have no rights other than the rights of its individual members.

I would give the greatest sunset in the world for one sight of New York's skyline. Particularly when one can't see the details. Just the shapes. The shapes and the thought that made them. The sky over New York and the will of man made visible. What other religion do we need?

Ask anything of men. Ask them to achieve wealth, fame, love, brutality, murder, self-sacrifice. But don’t ask them to achieve self-respect. They will hate your soul.

Have you felt it too? Have you seen how your best friends love everything about you- except the things that count? And your most important is nothing to them; nothing, not even a sound they can recognize.

She thought how strange it would be if she ever said 'Hello' to him. One did not greet oneself each morning.