It isn't what kind of house you have that matters. This is not happiness. It's what kind of mind you have, and how you care for your fellow man -- what you can do to help others who can be helped by no one else.

When you're the leader, everything is your fault.

Reason and reality are the only means to just laws; mindless wishes, if given sovereignty, become deadly masters.

Those who have come here to hate should leave now; for in their hate, they only betray themselves.

Nothing gained without cost is valued. Freedom has a cost, and all will bear it so all will value and preserve it.

Faith and feelings are the warm marrow of evil. Unlike reason, faith and feelings provide no boundary to limit any delusion, any whim. They are virulent poison, giving the numbing illusion of moral sanction to every depravity ever hatched. Faith and feelings are the darkness to reason’s light. Reason is the very substance of truth itself. The glory that is life is wholly embraced through reason. In rejecting it, in rejecting reason, one embraces death.

Books served to keep hard-won knowledge safe. They endured.