I've always thought that a feeling which changes never existed in the first place.

to rest one's case on faith means to concede that reason is on the side of one's enemies- that one has no rational arguments to offer.

Independence is the recognition of the fact that yours is the responsibility of judgment and nothing can help you escape it-that no substitute can do your thinking, as no pinch-hitter can live your life-that the vilest form of self-abasement and self-destruction is the subordination of your mind to the mind of another, the acceptance of an authority over your brain, the acceptance of his assertions as facts, his say-so as truth, his edicts as middle-man between your consciousness and your existence.

You love people, not for what you do for them or what they do for you. You love them for their values; their virtues.

The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity.

Thinking men cannot be ruled; ambitious men do not stagnate.

She fell asleep, lying there, her hand clasping his. Her last awareness, before she surrendered the responsibility of consciousness, was the sense of an enormous void, the void of a city and of a continent, where she would never be able to find the man whom she had no right to seek.