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.

All property and all forms of wealth are produced by man's mind and labor.

The self you have betrayed is your mind; self-esteem is reliance on one’s power to think. The ego you seek, that essential “you” which you cannot express or define, is not your emotions or inarticulate dreams, but your intellect, that judge of your supreme tribunal whom you’ve impeached in order to drift at the mercy of any stray shyster you describe as your “feeling.”

An attempt to gain a value by deceiving the mind of others is an act of raising your victims to a position higher than reality.

I will stop the motor of the world.

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.