It was the greatest sensation of existence: not to trust but to know.

Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps, down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision.

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.

If he can give his readers no reason why they should read his book, except that the events happened to him, it is not a valid book.

People create their own questions because they are afraid to look straight. All you have to do is look straight and see the road, and when you see it, don't sit looking at it - walk.

The code of competence is the only system of morality that's on a gold standard.

America's abundance was not created by public sacrifices to the common good, but by the productive genius of free men who pursued their own personal interests and the making of their own private fortunes.