I never found beauty in longing for the impossible and never found the possible to be beyond my reach.

What whip lashed them to their knees in shame and submission? The worship of the word "We.

Andrei, did you like the opera?" "Not particularly." "Andrei, do you see what you're missing?" "I don't think I do, Kira. It's all rather silly. And useless." "Can't you enjoy things that are useless, merely because they are beautiful?" "No. But I enjoyed it." "The music?" "No. The way you listened to it.

Those who grant sympathy to guilt, grant none to innocence.

Nobody has ever given a reason why men should be their brother's keepers.

I think it's a sin to sit down and let your life go without making a try for it.

The majority of those who are loosely identified by the term 'liberals' are afraid to let themselves discover that what they advocate is statism. They want to keep all the advantages and effects of capitalism, while destroying the cause, and they want to establish statism without its necessary effects. They do not want to know or to admit that they are the champions of dictatorship and slavery.