We have only two sources of information about the character of the people around us: we judge them by what they do and by what they say (particularly the first).

The world you desire can be won, it exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours.

Since religion is a primitive form of philosophy — an attempt to offer a comprehensive view of reality — many of its myths are distorted, dramatized allegories based on some element of truth, some actual, if profoundly elusive, aspect of man's existence.

Politically, the goal of today’s dominant trend is statism. Philosophically, the goal is the obliteration of reason; psychologically, it is the erosion of ambition.

When she had gone upstairs, he walked to a window and stood looking up at the sky. His head thrown back, he felt the pull of his throat muscles and he wondered whether the peculiar solemnity of looking at the sky comes, not from what one contemplates, but from that uplift of one's head.

When a man attempts to deal with me by force, I answer him, by force.

Ideas, in a free society, are not a crime- and neither can they serve as the justification of a crime.