A man's ego is the fountainhead of human progress.

You don't know how hard I've tried to be left standing all by myself.

The only proper purpose of a government is to protect man's rights, which means: to protect him from physical violence.

There can be no justification for choosing any part of that which one knows to be evil.

Compromise does not satisfy, but dissatisfies everybody; it does not lead to any general fulfillment, but to general frustration; those who try to become everything to all people end up by not being anything to anyone.

Ethics is a code of values which guide our choices and actions and determine the purpose and course of our lives.

Why had we let it go? Why had we both been condemned...to an exile among dreary strangers who had made us give up all desire for rest, for friendship, for the sound of human voices? Could I now reclaim a single hour spent talking to my brother, Philip, and give it to Ken Daggart? Who made it our duty to accept, as the only reward for our work, the gray torture of pretending love for those who roused nothing but contempt?