A viler evil than to murder a man, is to sell him suicide as an act of virtue.

I am not the means to any end others may wish to accomplish. I am not a tool for their use. I am not a servant of their needs. I am not a bandage for their wounds, I am not a sacrifice on their altars.

Morality pertains only to the sphere of man's free will - only to those actions which are open to his choice.

A rational process is a moral process. You may make an error at any step of it, with nothing to protect you but your own severity, or you may try to cheat, to fake the evidence and evade the effort of the quest - but if devotion to the truth is the hallmark of morality, then there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act of a man who assumes the responsibility of thinking.

The worst guilt is to accept an undeserved guilt — and that is what you have been doing all your life.

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

Creation comes before distribution -- or there will be nothing to distribute.