Self-esteem is reliance on ones power to think.

If he can give his readers no reason why they should read his book, except that the events happened to him, it is not a valid book.

Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of production and trade.

To say ‘I love you’ one must first know how to say the ‘I.’ The meaning of the ‘I’ is an independent, self-sufficient entity that does not exist for the sake of any other person. A person who exists only for the sake of his loved one is not an independent entity, but a spiritual parasite. The love of a parasite is worth nothing.

I never found beauty in longing for the impossible and never found the possible to be beyond my reach.

Face a challenge and find joy in the capacity to meet it.

Capitalism has created the highest standard of living ever known on earth. The evidence is incontrovertible. The contrast between West and East Berlin is the latest demonstration, like a laboratory experiment for all to see. Yet those who are loudest in proclaiming their desire to eliminate poverty are loudest in denouncing capitalism. Man's well-being is not their goal.