I need no warrant for being, and no word of sanction upon my being. I am the warrant and the sanction.

...only the pleasure which proceeds from a rational value judgement can be regarded as moral, pleasure, as such, is not a guide to action nor a standard of morality.

A spirit, too, needs fuel. It can run dry.

Within the extent of your knowledge, you are right.

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

The fortune my spirit is not to be blown into coins of brass and flung to the winds as alms for the poor of the spirit. I guard my treasures: my thought, my will, my freedom. And the greatest of these is freedom.

He liked to observe emotions; they were like red lanterns strung along the dark unknown of another's personality, marking vulnerable points.