If you tell an ugly woman that she is beautiful, you offer her the great homage of corrupting the concept of beauty.

Don't bother to examine a folly-ask yourself only what it accomplishes.

I agree that [marriage] should be treated like a business deal. But every business deal has to have its own terms and its own kind of currency.

Without property rights, no other rights are possible.

Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice.

For the first time since her return, she felt pain, a violent pain, but it made her feel alive, because it was worth feeling.

If a man wants love he should correct his weaknesses, or his flaws, and he may deserve it. But he cannot expect the unearned, either in love or in money; either in matter or in spirit.