Serenity comes from the ability to say “Yes” to existence. Courage comes from the ability to say “No” to the wrong choices made by others.

The government was set to protect man from criminals, and the Constitution was written to protect man from the government.

The man who produces while others dispose of his product is a slave.

I cannot stand Tolstoy, and reading him was the most boring literary duty I ever had to perform, his philosophy and his sense of life are not merely mistaken, but evil, and yet, from a purely literary viewpoint, on his own terms, I have to evaluate him as a good writer.

There’s nothing as significant as a human face. Nor as eloquent. We can never really know another person, except by our first glance at him. Because, in that glance, we know everything. Even though we’re not always wise enough to unravel the knowledge.

I need no warrant for being, and no word of sanction upon my being. I am the warrant and the sanction.

There are no little people in America. There are only people, equal before the law, yearning to breathe free and wanting to achieve the best within them.