America's founding Ideal was the principle of individual rights. Nothing more - and nothing less.

I do not seek the good of others as a sanction for my right to exist, nor do I recognize the good of others as a justification for their seizure of my property or their destruction of my 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.

I can accept anything, except what seems to be the easiest for most people: the half-way, the almost, the just-about, the in-between.

A rational man knows-or makes it a point to discover-the source of his emotions, the basic premises from which they come.

In proportion to the mental energy he spent, the man who creates a new invention receives but a small percentage of his value in terms of material payment, no matter what fortune he makes, no matter what millions he earns. But the man who works as a janitor in the factory producing that invention, receives an enormous payment in proportion to the mental effort that his job requires of him. And the same is true of all men between, on all levels of ambition and ability.

If you know that this life is all that you have, wouldn't you make the most of it?