As there can be no causeless wealth, so there can be no causeless love or any sort of causeless emotion.

Man's mind is his basic tool of survival. Life is given to him, survival is not. His body is given to him, its sustenance is not. His mind is given to him, its content is not. To remain alive, he must act, and before he can act he must know the nature and purpose of his action...To remain alive, he must think.

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.

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

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 do not enter discussions with neighbors who think they can forbid me to think. I do not place my moral sanction upon a murderer's wish to kill me. When a man attempts to deal with me by force, I answer him-by force.

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