If parasitism, favoritism, corruption, and greed for the unearned did not exist, a mixed economy would bring them into existence.

The word which can never die on this earth, for it is the heart of it and the meaning and the glory. The sacred word: EGO.

We have only two sources of information about the character of the people around us: we judge them by what they do and by what they say (particularly the first).

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.

Have you felt it too? Have you seen how your best friends love everything about you- except the things that count? And your most important is nothing to them; nothing, not even a sound they can recognize.

The view that man was ever to be drawn by some vision of the unattainable shining ahead, doomed ever to aspire, but not to achieve, my life and my values could not bring me to that.

If the rest of them can survive only by destroying us, then why should we wish them to survive? . . . Nothing can make it moral to destroy the best. One can't be punished for being good. One can't be penalized for ability.