The genius must have his freedom and his independence.

Thanksgiving is a typically American holiday...The lavish meal is a symbol of the fact that abundant consumption is the result and reward of production.

Indiscriminate tolerance and indiscriminate condemnation are not two opposites: they are two variants of the same evasion.

The greatest threat to mankind and civilization is the spread of the totalitarian philosophy. Its best ally is not the devotion of its followers but the confusion of its enemies. To fight it, we must understand it.

But the mind is an attribute of the individual. There is no such thing as a collective brain. There is no such thing as a collective thought. An agreement reached by a group of men is only a compromise or an average drawn upon many individual thoughts.

Capitalism is a social system based on the recognition of individual rights, including property rights, in which all property is privately owned.

Any work is creative work if done by a thinking mind.