Man cannot survive except through his mind. He comes on earth unarmed. His brain is his only weapon. Animals obtain food by force. man had no claws, no fangs, no horns, no great strength of muscle. He must plant his food or hunt it. To plant, he needs a process of thought. To hunt, he needs weapons,and to make weapons - a process of thought. From this simplest necessity to the highest religious abstraction, from the wheel to the skyscraper, everything we are and we have comes from a single attribute of man -the function of his reasoning mind.

Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swamps of the not-quite, the not-yet, and the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able to reach. The world you desire can be won. It exists.. it is real.. it is possible.. it's yours.

No happy person can be quite so impervious to pain (Gail Wynand to Dominique Francon)

I consider promiscuity immoral. Not because sex is evil, but because sex is too good and too important.

All the reasons which made the initiation of physical force evil, make the retaliatory use of physical force a moral imperative.

Defiance, not obedience, is the American's answer to overbearing authority.

I loathe your ideals because I know no worse injustice than the giving of the undeserved.