The quickest way to kill the human spirit is to ask someone to do mediocre work.

There can be no compromise between freedom and government controls; to accept 'just a few controls' is to surrender the principle of inalienable individual rights and to substitute for it the principle of the government’s unlimited, arbitrary power, thus delivering oneself into gradual enslavement. As an example of this process, observe the present domestic policy of the United States.

To deal with men by force is as impractical as to deal with nature by persuasion.

All life is a purposeful struggle, and your only choice is the choice of a goal.

He despised causeless affection, just as he despised unearned wealth. They professed to love him for some unknown reason and they ignored all the things for which he could wish to be loved.

Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.

Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artists metaphysical value judgments.