Those touchy mediocrities who sit trembling lest someone's work prove greater than their own - they have no inkling of the loneliness that comes when you reach the top. The loneliness for an equal - for a mind to respect and an achievement to admire.

The difference between animals and humans is that animals change themselves for the environment, but humans change the environment for themselves.

Whoever, to whatever purpose or extent, initiates the use of force, is a killer acting on the premise of death in a manner wider than murder: the premise of destroying man's capacity to live.

When you force a man to act against his own choice and judgment, it's his thinking that you want him to suspend.

A leash is a rope with a noose at both ends.

Faith and force ... are corollaries: every period of history dominated by mysticism, was a period of statism, of dictatorship, of tyranny.

you are never called upon to prove a negative. that's a law of logic.