But a few understand that building is a great symbol we live in our minds, and existence is the attempt to bring that life into physical reality, to state it in gesture and form. For the man who understands this, a house he owns is a statement of his life.

Allies never trust each other, but that doesn't spoil their effectiveness.

I am not the means to any end others may wish to accomplish. I am not a tool for their use. I am not a servant of their needs. I am not a bandage for their wounds, I am not a sacrifice on their altars.

She knew that she could not have reached this white serenity except as the sum of all the colors, of all the violence she had known.

If you write a whole line of zeroes, it's still — nothing.

The only proper purpose of a government is to protect man's rights, which means: to protect him from physical violence. A proper government is only a policeman, acting as an agent of man's self-defense, and, as such, may only resort to force only against those who start the use of force.

Freedom (n.): To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.