To achieve, you need thought

A building has integrity, just as a man and just as seldom! It must be true to its own idea, have its own form, and serve its own purpose!

Truth is the recognition of reality; reason, man's only means of knowledge, is his only standard of truth.

He wanted nothing, for the time being, except to understand .... Without advice, assistance or plan, he began reading an incongruous assortment of books; he would find some passage which he could not understand in one book, and he would get another on that subject .... There was no order in his reading; but there was order in what remained of it in his mind.

The doctrine that 'human rights' are superior to 'property rights' simply means that some human beings have the right to make property out of others.

Don't ever get angry at a man for stating the truth.

If, before undertaking some action, you must obtain the permission of society-you are not free, whether such permission is granted to you or not. Only a slave acts on permission. A permission is not a right.