Compromise now, because you'll have to later, anyway, only then you'll have gone through things you'll wish you hadn't.

If it's worth doing, it's worth overdoing.

Independence is the recognition of the fact that yours is the responsibility of judgment and nothing can help you escape it-that no substitute can do your thinking, as no pinch-hitter can live your life-that the vilest form of self-abasement and self-destruction is the subordination of your mind to the mind of another, the acceptance of an authority over your brain, the acceptance of his assertions as facts, his say-so as truth, his edicts as middle-man between your consciousness and your existence.

The cult of moral grayness is a revolt against moral values.

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.

It's not about who's going to let me; it's about who's going to stop me.

Government holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force.