Poverty is not a mortgage on the labor of others-misfortu ne is not a mortgage on achievement-fai lure is not a mortgage on success-sufferi ng is not a claim check, and its relief is not the goal of existence-man is not a sacrificial animal on anyone’s altar nor for anyone’s cause-life is not one huge hospital.

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

Through all the years that I spent formulating my philosophical system, I was looking desperately for “intelligent agreement” or at least for “intelligent disagreement.” I found neither. Today, I am not looking for “intelligent disagreement” any longer ... What I am looking for is intelligent agreement.

The men who attempt to survive, not by means of reason, but by means of force, are attempting to survive by the method of animals.

Power-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind.

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

If it's worth doing, it's worth overdoing.