The difference between animals and humans is that animals change themselves for the environment, but humans change the environment for themselves.

To hold an unchanging youth is to reach at the end, the vision with which one started.

Inflation is not caused by the actions of private citizens, but by the government: by an artificial expansion of the money supply required to support deficit spending. No private embezzlers or bank robbers in history have ever plundered people's savings on a scale comparable to the plunder perpetrated by the fiscal policies of statist governments.

Nobody has ever given a reason why men should be their brother's keepers.

The ' pleasure' of being drunk is obviously the pleasure of escaping from the responsibility of Consciousness.

That's a cute sentence: the years to come. Why are you so sure they're coming?

Degrees of ability vary, but the basic principle remains the same: the degree of a man's independence, initiative and personal love for his work determines his talent as a worker and his worth as a man. Independence is the only gauge of human virtue and value. What a man is and makes of himself; not what he has or hasn't done for others. There is no substitute for personal dignity. There is no standard of personal dignity except independence.