All work is an act of philosophy.

Man's mind is his basic tool of survival.

Collectivism requires self-sacrifice, the subordination of one's interests to those of others.

Your emotional capacity is an empty motor, and your values are the fuel with which your mind fills it. If you choose a mix of contradictions, it will clog your motor, corrode your transmission and wreck you on your first attempt to move with a machine which you, the driver, have corrupted.

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.

It's the person who would sell his soul for a nickel, who is loudest in proclaiming his hatred of money.

The sky is like a black sieve pierced by silver drops that tremble, ready to burst through.