Fully to surrender to love can be terrifying. But it is the price life asks in exchange for the possibility of ecstasy.

A depression is a large-scale decline in production and trade...there is nothing in the nature of a free-market economy to cause such an event.

Force, governmental coercion, is the instrument by which the ethics of altruism - the belief that the individual exists to serve others - is translated into political reality.

To exist without purpose is to be at the mercy of the chance encounter, the chance invitation, the chance phone call, the chance event- always being controlled by forces external to oneself.

If you overcome your fear to ask someone for a date, a raise, or help with a project, that is an act of self-assertiveness. You are moving out into life rather than contracting and withdrawing.

Integrity means congruence. Words and behavior match.

If we attach more importance to what other people believe than to what we know to be true - if we value belonging over being - we will not attain authenticity.