She started off, walking fast, as if the speed of her steps could give form to the things she felt..

A government is the most dangerous threat to man.

The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone..

In order to be in control of your life, you have to have a purpose-a productive purpose..

We have only two sources of information about the character of the people around us: we judge them by what they do and by what they say (particularly….

Definitions are the guardians of rationality, the first line of defense against the chaos of mental disintegration..

I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine..

All "public interest' legislation (and any distribution of money taken by force from some men for the unearned benefit of others) comes down ultimate….

It was the only thing I ever really wanted. And that’s the sin that can’t be forgiven--that I hadn’t done what I wanted. It feels so dirty and pointl….

Only the man who extols the purity of love devoid of desire, is capable of the depravity of a desire devoid of love..

Do you mean to tell me that you're thinking seriously of building that way, when and if you are an architect?" Yes." My dear fellow, who will let you….

It's the hardest thing in the world - to do what we want. And it takes the greatest kinds of courage..

Every period ruled by mystics was an era of stagnation and want, when most men were on strike against existence..

If that's the price of getting together, then I'll be damned if I want to live on the same earth with any human beings! If the rest of them can survi….

It's because...you see, if we had souls, which we haven't, and if our souls met--yours and mine--they'd fight to the death. But after they had torn e….

From the smallest necessity to the highest religious abstraction, from the wheel to the skyscraper, everything we are and everything we have comes fr….

Money is the root of all good..

Virtue is not an end in itself. Virtue is not its own reward or sacrificial fodder for the reward of evil. Life is the reward of virtue-and happiness….

The conservatives want to rule man's consciousness; the liberals, his body..

I can say-not as a patriotic bromide, but with full knowledge of the necessary metaphysical, epistemological , ethical, political and esthetic roots-….

You're not sorry. You could've been here if you made the effort. But when did you ever make an effort for anybody but yourself? You're not interested….