No individual or private group or private organization has the legal power to initiate the use of physical force against other individuals or groups and to compel them to act against their own voluntary choice. Only a government holds that power. The nature of governmental action is: coercive action. The nature of political power is: the power to force obedience under threat of physical injury-the threat of property expropriation, imprisonment, or death.

It is not as late as you think. It is merely early - in the age of the rebirth of individualism.

People create their own questions because they are afraid to look straight. All you have to do is look straight and see the road, and when you see it, don't sit looking at it - walk.

By what he chooses to present and by how he presents it, any author expresses his fundamental, metaphysical values.

The best, most natural dialogue is usually written as if the writer is listening to dictation. You might get stuck on any particular point and have to question yourself; but normally, dialogue writes itself.

In a free society, one does not have to deal with those who are irrational. One is free to avoid them.

My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own purpose.