 A desire presupposes the possibility of action to achieve it; action presupposes a goal which is worth achieving. |
| The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it. |
| To say "I love you" one must first be able to say the "I." |
| The worst guilt is to accept an unearned guilt. |
| The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity. |
| The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live. |
| From the smallest necessity to the highest religious abstraction, from the wheel to the skyscraper, everything we are and everything we have comes from one attribute of man - the function of his reasoning mind. |
| Potentially, a government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims. |
| The man who lets a leader prescribe his course is a wreck being towed to the scrap heap. |
| Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice. |
| Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins. |
| Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values. |
| There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil. |
| A building has integrity just like a man. And just as seldom. |
| Money demands that you sell, not your weakness to men's stupidity, but your talent to their reason. |
| So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of all money? |
| If any civilization is to survive, it is the morality of altruism that men have to reject. |
| I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine. |
| Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver. |
| The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities. |
