The men who attempt to survive, not by means of reason, but by means of force, are attempting to survive by the method of animals.

Independence is the recognition of the fact that yours is the responsibility of judgement and nothing can help you escape it - that no substitute can do your thinking, as no pinch-hitter can live your life.

We are all brothers under the skin - and I, for one, would be willing to skin humanity to prove it.

Capitalism is not the system of the past; it is the system of the future -- if mankind is to have a future

Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness.

A good novel is an indivisible sum; every scene, sequence and passage of a good novel has to involve, contribute to and advance all three of its major attributes: theme, plot, characterization.

Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper's bell of an approaching looter.