One must differentiate between one's thoughts and one's emotions with full clarity and precision...No discussion, cooperation, agreement, or understanding is possible among men who substitute emotion for proof.

Only the man who does not need it, is fit to inherit wealth, the man who would make his fortune no matter where he started.

Hank, this is great." "Yes." He said it simply, openly. There was no flattered pleasure in his voice, and no modesty. This, she knew, was a tribute to her, the rarest one person could pay another: the tribute of feeling free to acknowledge one's own greatness, knowing that it is understood.

The doctrine that 'human rights' are superior to 'property rights' simply means that some human beings have the right to make property out of others.

Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps, down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision.

Because, you see, God - whatever anyone chooses to call God - is one's highest conception of the highest possible. And whoever places his highest conception above his own possibility thinks very little of himself and his life. It's a rare gift, you know, to feel reverence for your own life and to want the best, the greatest, the highest possible, here, now, for your very own. To imagine a heaven and then not to dream of it, but to demand it.

Learn to distinguish the difference between errors of knowledge and breaches of morality