I need no warrant for being, and no word of sanction upon my being. I am the warrant and the sanction.

She knew that she could not have reached this white serenity except as the sum of all the colors, of all the violence she had known.

Do not make the mistake of the ignorant who think that an individualist is a man who says: “I’ll do as I please at everybody else’s expense.” An individualist is a man who recognizes the inalienable individual rights of man—his own and those of others.

The truly and deliberately evil men are a very small minority; it is the appeaser who unleashes them on mankind.

Any alleged 'right' of one man, which necessitates the violation of the rights of another, is not and cannot be a right.

When a man declares: "There are no blacks and whites [in morality]" he is making a psychological confession, and what he means is: "I am unwilling to be wholly good - and please don't regard me as wholly evil!"

A house can have integrity, just like a person.