I understood that centuries of chains and lashes will not kill the spirit of man nor the sense of truth within him.

You love only those who deserve it.

"Mediocrity" doesn't mean average intelligence, it means an average intelligence that resents and envies its betters.

I like to receive money for my work. But I can pass that up this time. I like to have people know my work is done by me. But I can pass that up. I like to have tenants made happy by my work. But that doesn't matter too much. The only thing that matters, my goal, my reward, my beginning, my end is the work itself. My work done my way. Peter, there's nothing in the world that you can offer me, except this. Offer me this and you can have anything I've got to give. My work done my way. A private, personal, selfish, egotistical motivation. That's the only way I function. That's all I am.

We have come to see how great is the unexplored.

Every coercive monopoly was created by government intervention into the economy: by special privileges, such as franchises or subsidies, which closed the entry of competitors into a given field, by legislative action.

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