She stood at the window, her arms spread wide, holding on to each side of the frame, it was as if she held a piece of the city.

A spirit, too, needs fuel. It can run dry.

There is no such thing as duty. If you know that a thing is right, you want to do it. If you don't want to do it - it isn't right. If it's right and you don't want to do it - you don't know what right is and you're not a man.

Government 'help' to business is just as disastrous as government persecution... the only way a government can be of service to national prosperity is by keeping its hands off.

Happiness is a state of non-contradictory joy--a joy without penalty or guilt, a joy that does not clash with any of your values and does not work for your own destruction, not the joy of escaping from your mind, but of using your mind's fullest power, not the joy of faking reality, but of achieving values that are real, not the joy of a drunkard, but of a producer.

It's the person who would sell his soul for a nickel, who is loudest in proclaiming his hatred of money.

It's such a waste to be subtle and vicious with people who don't even know that you're being subtle and vicious