Any material element or resource which, in order to become of use or value to men, requires the application of human knowledge and effort, should be private property-by the right of those who apply the knowledge and effort.

Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness.

I worship individuals for their highest possibilities as individuals and I loathe humanity for its failure to live up to these possibilities.

Courage and confidence are practical necessities . . . courage is the practical form of being true to existence, of being true to truth, and confidence is the practical form of being true to one’s own consciousness.

Censorship' is a term pertaining only to governmental action. No private action is censorship. No private individual or agency can silence a man or suppress a publication; only the government can do so. The freedom of speech of private individuals includes the right not to agree, not to listen and not to finance one's own antagonists.

What do I "think" of President Reagan? The best answer to give would be: I don't think of him. And the more I see, the less I think.

I hold that such a question can never arise except in a society of cannibals.