Because I never have any definite destination. This ship is not for going to places, but for getting away from them. When I stop at a port, it's only for the sheer pleasure of leaving it. I always think: here's one more place that can't hold me.

Statism needs war; a free country does not. Statism survives by looting; a free country survives by producing.

A building has integrity, just as a man and just as seldom! It must be true to its own idea, have its own form, and serve its own purpose!

Without property rights, no other rights are possible.

Emotions are inherent in your nature, but their content is dictated by your mind. Your emotional capacity is an empty motor, and your values are the fuel with which your mind fills it.

All the reasons which made the initiation of physical force evil, make the retaliatory use of physical force a moral imperative.

Do you know the hallmark of the second-rater? It's resentment of another man's achievement.