You will follow me, if we are what we are, you and I, if we live, if the world exists, if you know the meaning of this moment and can't let it slip by, as others let it slip, into the senselessness of the unwilled and unreached.

It's strange. There's your life. You begin it, feeling that it's something so precious and rare, so beautiful that it's like a sacred treasure. Now it's over, and it doesn't make any difference to anyone, and it isn't that they are indifferent, it's just that they don't know, they don't know what it means, that treasure of mine, and there's something about it that they should understand. I don't understand it myself, but there's something that should be understood by all of us. Only what is it? What?

Neither life nor happiness can be achieved by the pursuit of irrational whims.

Freedom (n.): To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.

Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps, down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision.

We have only two sources of information about the character of the people around us: we judge them by what they do and by what they say (particularly the first).

Every coercive monopoly was created by government intervention into the economy: by special privileges, such as franchises or subsidies, which closed the entry of competitors into a given field, by legislative action.