Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness.

It is easier to donate a few thousand to charity and think oneself noble than to base self-respect on personal standards of personal achievement.

If you tell an amateur that his story is not good, he always declares indignantly: 'Oh, but it really happened just like this!' The writer who doesn't understand that this is beside the point is not a writer at all.

Reality confronts man with a great many musts, but all of them are conditional the formula of realistic necessity is You must, if and the if stands for man's choice

Fight for the value of your person. Fight for the virtue of your pride. Fight for the essence of that which is man: for his sovereign rational mind. Fight with the radiant certainty and the absolute rectitude of knowing that yours is the Morality of Life and that yours is the battle for any achievement, any value, any grandeur, any goodness, any joy that has ever existed on this earth

It's not about who's going to let me; it's about who's going to stop me.

The difference between animals and humans is that animals change themselves for the environment, but humans change the environment for themselves.