What is morality, she asked. Judgement to distinguish right and wrong, vision to see the truth, and courage to act upon it, dedication to that which is good, integrity to stand by the good at any price.

If you write a whole line of zeroes, it's still — nothing.

The basic need of the creator is independence. The reasoning mind cannot work under any form of compulsion. It cannot be curbed, sacrificed or subordinated to any consideration whatsoever. It demands total independence in function and in motive.

Romantic art is always stylized: the better the art, the cleaner and more attractive and intelligent the stylization.

America's abundance was not created by public sacrifices to the common good, but by the productive genius of free men who pursued their own personal interests and the making of their own private fortunes.

I want to be prepared to claim the greatest virtue of all - that I was a man who made money

The fight we are in here, make no mistake about it, is a fight of individualism versus collectivism.