An emotion as much tells you nothing about reality, beyond the fact that something makes you feel something.

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

There is nothing to take a man’s freedom away from him, save other men.

Because I never have any definite destination. This ship is not for going to places, but for getting away from them. When I stop at a port, it's only for the sheer pleasure of leaving it. I always think: here's one more place that can't hold me.

I take no pride in hopeless longing; I wouldn't hold a stillborn aspiration. I'd want to have it, to make it, to live it.

A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.

When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion...th at in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing-you may know that your society is doomed.