We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force.

All life is a purposeful struggle, and your only choice is the choice of a goal.

If you know that this life is all that you have, wouldn't you make the most of it?

To love is to value. Only a rationally selfish man, a man of self esteem, is capable of love - because he is the only man capable of holding firm, consistent, uncompromising, unbetrayed value. The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone

every man is free to rise as far as he's able or willing, but the degree to which he thinks determines the degree to which he'll rise.

Definitions are the guardians of rationality, the first line of defense against the chaos of mental disintegration.

There's nothing of any importance in life-except how well you do your work.