She thought how strange it would be if she ever said 'Hello' to him. One did not greet oneself each morning.

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.

The basic need of the creator is independence. The reasoning mind cannot work under any form of compulsion. It cannot be curbed, sacrificed or subordinated to any consideration whatsoever. It demands total independence in function and in motive.

But Aristotle's philosophy was the intellect's Declaration of Independence.

There are two side to every issue.

It is morally obscene to regard wealth as an anonymous, tribal product and to talk about 'redistributing' it.

the important consideration is not your opponents, but yourself. It is bad to scream at them, not because it hurts them, they ought to be hurt, but because it hurts you. Anger is a form of recognition. It amounts to admitting that those people are important to you and that they have the power to hurt you. Actually, they haven't.