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

Kill reverence and you've killed the hero in man.

If the rest of them can survive only by destroying us, then why should we wish them to survive? . . . Nothing can make it moral to destroy the best. One can't be punished for being good. One can't be penalized for ability.

Potentially, a government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims.

There is a fundamental conviction which some people never acquire, some hold only in their youth, and a few hold to the end of their days-the conviction that ideas matter . . . . That ideas matter means that knowledge matters, that truth matters, that one's mind matters . . .

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

It is easier to donate a few thousand to charity and think oneself noble than to base self-respect on personal standards of personal achievement.