A rational man knows-or makes it a point to discover-the source of his emotions, the basic premises from which they come.

But neither life nor happiness can be achieved by the pursuit of irrational whims. Just as man is free to attempt to survive in any random manner, but will perish unless he lives as his nature requires, so he is free to seek his happiness in any mindless fraud, but the torture of frustration is all he will find, unless he seeks the happiness proper to man. The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.

There are no white lies, there is only the blackest of destruction, and a white lie is the blackest of all.

The right to life is the source of all rights -- and the right to property is their only implementation. Without property rights, no other rights are possible. Since man has to sustain his life by his own effort, the man who has no right to the product of his effort has no means to sustain his life. The man who produces while others dispose of his product, is a slave.

To fear to face an issue is to believe that the worst is true.

To abstain from condemning a torturer, is to become an accessory to the torture and murder of his victims.

Men prosper or fail, survive or perish in proportion to the degree of their rationality.