Neither life nor happiness can be achieved by the pursuit of irrational whims.

I think that when in doubt about the truth of an issue, it's safer and in better taste to select the least numerous of the adversaries.

Just as man can't exist without his body, so no rights can exist without the right to translate one's rights into reality, to think, to work and keep the results, which means: the right of property.

When a man declares: "There are no blacks and whites [in morality]" he is making a psychological confession, and what he means is: "I am unwilling to be wholly good - and please don't regard me as wholly evil!"

It's the hardest thing in the world - to do what we want. And it takes the greatest kinds of courage.

The alleged short-cut to knowledge, which is faith, is only a short-circuit destroying the mind

Never ask people about your work.