“All life is a purposeful struggle, and your only choice is the choice of a goal.”

Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.

The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals.

The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.

Men who reject the responsibility of thought and reason can only exist as parasites on the thinking of others.

People don’t want to think. And the deeper they get into trouble, the less they want to think.

Power-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind.

Love should be treated like a business deal, but every business deal has its own terms and its own currency. And in love, the currency is virtue.

To sell your soul is the easiest thing in the world. That’s what everybody does every hour of his life. If I asked you to keep your soul – would you understand why that’s much harder?

Self respect is something that can’t be killed. The worst thing is to kill a man’s pretense at it.

A businessman cannot force you to buy his product; if he makes a mistake, he suffers the consequences; if he fails, he takes the loss. If bureaucrat makes a mistake, you suffer the consequences; if he fails, he passes the loss on to you.

My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own purpose.

I could die for you. But I couldn’t, and wouldn’t, live for you.

The uncontested absurdities of today are the accepted slogans of tomorrow.

If one’s actions are honest, one does not need the predated confidence of others.

A culture is not the anonymous product of undifferentiate d masses, but the sum of the intellectual achievements of individual men.

The basic need of the creator is independence.

You don’t get to choose if you get hurt in this world but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices.

If you are born an artist, you have no choice but to fight to stay an artist.

I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad. Or I can go mad by ricocheting in between.

When a door closes you have two choices: give up, or keep going.

A choice of pains. That’s what living was all about.

You never know how strong you are until being strong is your only choice.

You never know how strong you are until being strong is your only choice.

Cleverness is a gift, kindness is a choice.