I worship individuals for their highest possibilities as individuals and I loathe humanity for its failure to live up to these possibilities.

Action without thought is mindlessness, and thought without action is hypocritical.

No advocate of reason can claim the right to force his ideas on others. No advocate of the free mind can claim the right to force the minds of others. No rational society, no co-operation, no agreement, no understanding, no discussion are possible among men who propose to substitute guns for rational persuasion.

Everyone has the right to make his own decisions, but none has the right to force his decision on others.

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.

"Mediocrity" doesn't mean average intelligence, it means an average intelligence that resents and envies its betters.

And that night we knew that to hold the body of women in our arms in neither ugly nor shameful, but the one ecstasy granted to the race of men.