Every form of causeless self-doubt, every feeling of inferiority and secret unworthiness is, in fact, man's hidden dread of his inability to deal with existence.

I seek no values by means of evil, nor do I surrender my values to evil.

A trader is a man who earns what he gets and does not give or take the undeserved.

Man's mind is his basic tool of survival. Life is given to him, survival is not.

Whenever a man denounces the mind, it is because his goal is of a nature the mind would not permit him to confess.

Man cannot survive except by gaining knowledge, and reason is his only means to gain it.

Man has been called a rational being, but rationality is a matter of choice-and the alternative his nature offers him is: rational being or suicidal animal. Man has to be man-by choice; he has to hold his life as a value-by choice; he has to learn to sustain it-by choice; he has to discover the values it requires and practice his virtues-by choice. A code of values accepted by choice is a code of morality.