The great creators-the thinkers, the artists, the scientists, the inventors-stood alone against the men of their time.

The writer who develops a beautiful style, but has nothing to say, represents a kind of arrested esthetic development; he is like a pianist who acquires a brilliant technique by playing finger-exercises, but never gives a concert.

A man's ego is the fountainhead of human progress.

Indiscriminate tolerance and indiscriminate condemnation are not two opposites: they are two variants of the same evasion. To declare that “everybody is white” or “everybody is black” or “everybody is neither white nor black, but gray,” is not a moral judgment, but an escape from the responsibility of moral judgment.

While, politically, a mixed economy preserves the semblance of an organized society with a semblance of law and order, economically it is the equivalent of the chaos that had ruled China for centuries: a chaos of robber gangs looting-and draining-the productive elements of the country.

Love is our response to our highest values. Love is self-enjoyment. The noblest love is born out of admiration of another's values.

Every form of happiness is private. Our greatest moments are personal, self-motivated, not to be touched".