...if men are to be ruled, then the enemy is reason.

A man's rights are not violated by a private individual's refusal to deal with him.

Whenever anyone accuses some person of being 'unfeeling,' he means that that person is just.

Individualism regards man-every man-as an independent, sovereign entity who possesses an inalienable right to his own life, a right derived from his nature as a rational being.

People think that a liar gains a victory over his victim. What I’ve learned is that a lie is an act of self-abdication, because one surrenders one’s reality to the person to whom one lies, making that person one’s master, condemning oneself from then on to faking the sort of reality that person’s view requires to be faked…The man who lies to the world, is the world’s slave from then on…There are no white lies, there is only the blackest of destruction, and a white lie is the blackest of all.

There were things in my past which I have not liked. But all the things of which I was proud will remain.

We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality