This god, this one word: I.

I started my life with a single absolute: that the world was mine to shape in the image of my highest values and never to be given up to a lesser standard, no matter how long or hard the struggle.

A man of independent judgment is a man of profound self-esteem.

Truth is the recognition of reality; reason, man's only means of knowledge, is his only standard of truth.

Existence is Identity, Consciousness is Identification.

The only proper purpose of a government is to protect man's rights, which means: to protect him from physical violence.

I love you. As the same value, as the same expression, with the same pride and the same meaning as I love my work, my mills, my Metal, my hours at a desk, at a furnace, in a laboratory, in an ore mine, as I love my ability to work, as I love the act of sight and knowledge, as I love the action of my mind when it solves a chemical equation or grasps a sunrise, as I love the things I've made and the things I've felt, as *my* product, as *my* choice, as a shape of my world, as my best mirror, as the wife I've never had, as that which makes all the rest of it possible: as my power to live.