Every government interference in the economy consists of giving an unearned benefit, extorted by force, to some men at the expense of others.

The nation which once held the creed that greatness is achieved by production, is now told that it is achieved by squalor.

Worry is a waste of emotional reserve".

Only a man of integrity can possess the virtue of honesty, since only the faking of one’s consciousness can permit the faking of existence.

Why no. I’m too conceited. If you want to call it that. I don’t make comparisons. I never think of myself in relation to anyone else. I just refuse to measure myself as part of anything. I’m an utter egotist.

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

Indiscriminate tolerance and indiscriminate condemnation are not two opposites: they are two variants of the same evasion. To declare that “everybody is white” or “everybody is black” or “everybody is neither white nor black, but gray,” is not a moral judgment, but an escape from the responsibility of moral judgment.