Men have been taught that it is a virtue to stand together. But the creator is the man who stands alone.

The right to agree with others is not a problem in any society; it is the right to disagree that is crucial. It is the institution of private property that protects and implements the right to disagree - and thus keeps the road open to man's most valuable attribute: the creative mind.

Romantic art is always stylized: the better the art, the cleaner and more attractive and intelligent the stylization.

I've always thought that a feeling which changes never existed in the first place.

Face a challenge and find joy in the capacity to meet it.

A good quotation must be a complete entity. It must be like a headline - sharp, clear, whole.

Every movement that seeks to enslave a country, every dictatorship or potential dictatorship, needs some minority group as a scapegoat which it can blame for the nation's troubles and use as a justification of its own demands for dictatorial powers. In Soviet Russia, the scapegoat was the bourgeoisie; in Nazi Germany, it was the Jewish people; in America, it is the businessmen.