The verdict you pronounce upon the source of your livelihood is the verdict you pronounce upon your life.

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

There is no such dichotomy as 'human rights' versus 'property rights.' No human rights can exist without property rights.

That an error made on your own is safer than ten truths accepted on faith, because the first leaves you the means to correct it but the second destroys your capacity to distinguish truth from error.

The truly and deliberately evil men are a very small minority; it is the appeaser who unleashes them on mankind; it is the appeaser's intellectual abdication that invites them to take over. When a culture's dominant trend is geared to irrationality, the thugs win over the appeasers. When intellectual leaders fail to foster the best in the mixed, unformed, vacillating character of people at large, the thugs are sure to bring out the worst. When the ablest men turn into cowards, the average men turn into brutes.

I don't build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build.

Every honest man lives for himself. Every man worth calling a man lives for himself. The one who doesn't - doesn't live at all.