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

He despised causeless affection, just as he despised unearned wealth. They professed to love him for some unknown reason and they ignored all the things for which he could wish to be loved.

The uncontested absurdities of today are the accepted slogans of tomorrow.

I regret nothing. There have been things I missed, but I ask no questions, because I have loved it, such as it has been, even the moments of emptiness, even the unanswered-and that I loved it, that is the unanswered in my life.

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

A rational man never distorts or corrupts his own standards and judgment in order to appeal to the irrationality, stupidity, or dishonesty of others.

If men want to oppose war, it is statism that they must oppose.