He stepped to the window and pointed to the skyscrapers of the city. He said that we had to extinguish the lights of the world, and when we would see the lights of New York go out, we would know that our job was done.

We didn't really have to take everything so seriously, did we?

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

Racism is a doctrine of, by and for brutes.

So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of all money?

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

If a man speculates on what 'society' should do for the poor, he accepts thereby the collectivist premise that men's lives belong to society and that he, as a member of society, has the right to dispose of them...that psychological confession reveals the enormity of the extent to which altruism erodes men's capacity to grasp the concept of rights or the value of an individual life.