Capitalism is not the system of the past; it is the system of the future -- if mankind is to have a future

I saw that evil was impotent—that evil was the irrational, the blind, the anti-real—and that the only weapon of its triumph was the willingness of the good to serve it.

Talent alone is helpless today. Any success requires both talent and luck. And the 'luck' has to be helped along and provided by someone.

Identify the dominant philosophy of a society and you can predict its future.

To be free, a man must be free of his brothers. That is freedom. That and nothing else.

Ideas cannot be fought except by means of better ideas. The battle consists, not of opposing, but of exposing; not of denouncing, but of disproving; not of evading, but of boldly proclaiming a full, consistent, and radical alternative.

Defiance, not obedience, is the American's answer to overbearing authority.