Many words have been granted me, and some are wise, and some are false, but only three are holy: "I will it!

The difference between a welfare state and a totalitarian state is a matter of time.

To demand 'sense' is the hallmark of nonsense. Nature does not make sense. Nothing makes sense.

Capitalism has been called nationalistic - yet it is the only system that banished ethnicity, and made it possible, in the United States, for men of various, formerly antagonistic nationalities to live together in peace.

Love is not self-sacrifice, but the most profound assertion of your own needs and values. It is for your own happiness that you need the person you love, and that is the greatest compliment, the greatest tribute you can pay to that person.

It is too early to feel fear of the future when one is under 30, and too late after that. What I mean is that one must never allow fear to become one's permanent sense of life. The important thing is to prepare yourself intellectually to deal with whatever circumstances you may encounter, which requires that you define your values fully, clearly and rationally -- and never betray them.

A culture is not the anonymous product of undifferentiate d masses, but the sum of the intellectual achievements of individual men.