I would give the greatest sunset in the world for one sight of New York's skyline.

My pride and my power of vision were all that I owned when I started - and whatever I achieved, was achieved by means of them. Both are greater now. Now I have the knowledge of the superlative value I had missed: of my right to be proud of my vision. The rest is mine to reach.

My philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute.

America's skyscrapers were not built by public funds nor for a public purpose: they were built by the energy, initiative and wealth of private individuals for personal profit. And, instead of impoverishing the people, these skyscrapers, as they rose higher and higher, kept raising the people's standard of living - including the inhabitants of the slums.

You can ignore reality, but you can't ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.

I would give the greatest sunset in the world for one sight of New York's skyline.

If some men are entitled by right to the products of the work of others, it means that those others are deprived of rights and condemned to slave labor.