The choice--the dedication to one's highest potential--is made by accepting the fact that the noblest act you have ever performed is the act of your mind in the process of grasping that two and two make four.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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