Racism is the lowest, most crudely primitive form of collectivism. It is the notion of ascribing moral, social or political significance to a man’s genetic lineage-the notion that a man’s intellectual and characterologic al traits are produced and transmitted by his internal body chemistry.

Emotions are inherent in your nature, but their content is dictated by your mind. Your emotional capacity is an empty motor, and your values are the fuel with which your mind fills it.

The right to life means that a man has the right to support his life by his own work (on any economic level, as high as his ability will carry him); it does not mean that others must provide him with the necessities of life.

The sky is like a black sieve pierced by silver drops that tremble, ready to burst through.

She had learned, in the slums of her childhood, that honest people were never touchy about the matter of being trusted.

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

She did not know the nature of her loneliness. The only words that named it were: This is not the world I expected.