She fell asleep, lying there, her hand clasping his. Her last awareness, before she surrendered the responsibility of consciousness, was the sense of an enormous void, the void of a city and of a continent, where she would never be able to find the man whom she had no right to seek.

When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion...th at in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing-you may know that your society is doomed.

The nation which once held the creed that greatness is achieved by production, is now told that it is achieved by squalor.

All life is a purposeful struggle, and your only choice is the choice of a goal.

That which you call your soul or spirit is your consciousness, and that which you call 'free will' is your mind's freedom to think or not, the only will you have, your only freedom, the choice that controls all the choices you make and determines your life and your character.

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.

In all proper relationships there is no sacrifice of anyone to anyone.