Who was it that said he needed a fulcrum? Give me an unobstructed right-of-way and I'll show them how to move the earth!

I shall choose friends among men, but neither slaves nor masters. And I shall choose only such as please me, and them I shall love and respect, but neither command nor obey. And we shall join our hands when we wish, or walk alone when we so desire.

The more neurotic and evasive a person is, the shorter the range of his interests.

The government was set to protect man from criminals-and the constitution was written to protect man from the government. The Bill of Rights was not directed at private citizens, but against the government-as an explicit declaration that individual rights supersede any public or social power.

Only the man who does not need it, is fit to inherit wealth, the man who would make his fortune no matter where he started.

The moral absolute should be: if and when, in any dispute, one side initiates the use of physical force, that side is wrong - and no consideration or discussion of the issues is necessary or appropriate.

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