A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.

Parties are intended to be celebrations, and celebrations should be only for those who have something to celebrate.

There is no affirmation without the one who affirms. in this sense, everything to which you grant your love is yours

To be the kind of writer you want to be, you must first be the kind of thinker you want to be.

Man's mind is his basic tool of survival.

The three values which men had held for centuries and which have now collapsed are: mysticism, collectivism, altruism. Mysticism — as a cultural power — died at the time of the Renaissance. Collectivism — as a political ideal — died in World War II. As to altruism — it has never been alive. It is the poison of death in the blood of Western civilization, and men survived it only to the extent to which they neither believed nor practiced it.

Capitalism is the only system that can make freedom, individuality, and the pursuit of values possible in practice. When I say 'capitalism,' I mean a pure, uncontrolled, unregulated laissez-faire capitalism - with a separation of economics, in the same way and for the same reasons as a separation of state and church.