If a life could have a theme song - and I believe every worthwhile one has - mine is a religion, an obsession, a mania or all of these expressed in one word - individualism. I was born with that obsession, and I've never seen and do not know now a cause more worthy, more misunderstood, more seemingly hopeless and tragically needed.

Every form of happiness if one, every desire is driven by the same motor--by our love for a single value, for the highest potentiality of our own existence--and every achievement is an expression of it.

Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice.

There is nothing to take a man’s freedom away from him, save other men.

The only proper functions of a government are: the police, to protect you from criminals; the army, to protect you from foreign invaders; and the courts, to protect your property and contracts from breach or fraud by others, and to settle disputes by rational rules, according to objective law.

She thought: at this moment, the glass stem between his fingers feels just like the one between mine. We have this much in common.

I am only concerned with politics so I may see the day when I don't have to be concerned with politics.