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.

Government power is always abused by seizing and perverting the law. And with few exceptions, government always determines what is law.

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

A trader does not squander his body as fodder or his soul as alms.

There can be no causeless love or any sort of causeless emotion. An emotion is a response to a fact of reality, an estimate dictated by your standards.

Discard the protective rags of that vice which you called a virtue: humility. Learn to value yourself, which means: to FIGHT for your happiness, and when you learn that pride is the sum of all virtues, you will learn to live like a man.

Whatever he was-that robot in the Garden of Eden, who existed without mind, without values, without labor, without love-he was not man.