There is no such dichotomy as 'human rights' versus 'property rights.' No human rights can exist without property rights.

When I listen to a symphony I love, I don't get from it what the composer got. His 'Yes' was different from mine. He could have no concern for mine and no exact conception of it. That answer is too personal to each man. But in giving himself what he wanted, he gave me a great experience.

If you know that this life is all that you have, wouldn't you make the most of it?

Why do they always teach us that it's easy and evil to do what we want and that we need discipline to restrain ourselves? It's the hardest thing in the world--to do what we want. And it takes the greatest kind of courage. I mean, what we really want.

I'm not brave enough to be a coward; I see the consequences too clearly.

Happiness is not to be achieved at the command of emotional whims.

It's not a question of who will allow me to do it, it's a question of who will stop me.