When she had gone upstairs, he walked to a window and stood looking up at the sky. His head thrown back, he felt the pull of his throat muscles and h….

A morality that holds need as a claim, holds emptiness-non-existence-as its standard of value; it rewards an absence, a defect: weakness, inability, ….

Compromise now, because you'll have to later, anyway, only then you'll have gone through things you'll wish you hadn't..

Because I never have any definite destination. This ship is not for going to places, but for getting away from them. When I stop at a port, it's only….

When intellectual leaders fail to foster the best in the mixed, unformed, vacillating character of people at large, the thugs are sure to bring out t….

whose steps were a restless substitute for flight..

Indiscriminate tolerance and indiscriminate condemnation are not two opposites: they are two variants of the same evasion..

Courage and confidence are practical necessities . . . courage is the practical form of being true to existence, of being true to truth, and confiden….

It is not advisable to venture unsolicited opinions. You should spare yourself the embarrassing discovery of their exact value to your listener..

There’s nothing as significant as a human face. Nor as eloquent. We can never really know another person, except by our first glance at him. Because,….

As long as men are free to speak, a small, rational minority will always prevail over an irrational majority..

The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so ….

When man learns to understand and control his own behavior as well as he is learning to understand and control the behavior of crop plants and domest….

Degrees do not matter... one does not bargain about inches of evil..

All the evils, abuses, and iniquities, popularly ascribed to businessmen and to capitalism, were not caused by an unregulated economy or by a free ma….

You love people, not for what you do for them or what they do for you. You love them for their values; their virtues..

Capitalism is not the system of the past; it is the system of the future -- if mankind is to have a future.

It's a rare gift, you know, to feel reverence for your own life and to want the best, the greatest, the highest possible, here, now, for your very ow….

And that night we knew that to hold the body of women in our arms in neither ugly nor shameful, but the one ecstasy granted to the race of men..

America's skyscrapers were not built by public funds nor for a public purpose: they were built by the energy, initiative and wealth of private indivi….

I am. I think. I will..