They proclaim that every man is entitled to exist without labor and, the laws of reality to the contrary notwithstanding, is entitled to receive his 'minimum sustenance' his food, his clothes, his shelter with no effort on his part, as his due and his birthright. To receive it from whom.

An artist reveals his naked soul in his work.

The age of the skyscraper is gone. This is the age of the housing project. Which is always a prelude to the age of the cave.

My greatest personal mistake is ever to allow a word or moment that “doesn’t count,” i.e., that I do not refer to my own basic principles. Every word, every action, every moment counts. (This is the pattern on which everybody makes mistakes [or] becomes irrational — not relating their one action or one conviction to another.

Let no man posture as an advocate of peace if he proposes or supports any social system that initiates the use of force against individual men, in any form.

You don't build for the way people live, but for the way they should live. I don't write about people as they are, but as they could be and should be.

Any work is creative work if done by a thinking mind.