Emotions are not tools of cognition. They tell you nothing about the nature of reality.

It's so graceless, being a martyr. It's honoring your adversaries too much.

My philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute.

There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil.

You love people, not for what you do for them or what they do for you. You love them for their values; their virtues.

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.

The first society in history whose leaders were neither Attilas nor Witch Doctors, a society led, dominated and created by the Producers, was the United States of America.