Freedom comes from seeing the ignorance of your critics and discovering the emptiness of their virtue.

Let me give you a tip on a clue to men's characters: the man who damns money has obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it has earned it.

In all proper relationships there is no sacrifice of anyone to anyone.

Creation comes before distribution - or there will be nothing to distribute. The need of the creator comes before the need of any possible beneficiary. Yet we are taught to admire the second-hander who dispenses gifts he has not produced above the man who made the gifts possible. We praise an act of charity. We shrug at an act of achievement.

Professional intellectuals are the voice of a culture and are, therefore, its leaders, its integrators and its bodyguards.

Morality pertains only to the sphere of man's free will - only to those actions which are open to his choice.

Since reason is man’s basic means of survival, that which is proper to the life of a rational being is the good; that which negates, opposes or destroys it is the evil.