but their eyes were as cold blue glass buttons.

The end does not justify the means. No one's rights can be secured by the violation of the rights of others.

Kill reverence and you've killed the hero in man.

There were things in my past which I have not liked. But all the things of which I was proud will remain.

I say that man is entitled to his own happiness and that he must achieve it himself. But that he cannot demand that others give up their lives to make him happy.

An idea is a light turned on in a man's soul. Comic-strip artists are in the habit of representing it by means of a light bulb flashing on, above the head of a character who has suddenly grasped an idea. In simple, primitive terms, this is an appropriate symbol.

It is not as late as you think. It is merely early - in the age of the rebirth of individualism.