“Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins.”

Do not help your jailers to pretend that their jail is your natural state of existence.

Love is reverence, and worship, and glory, and the upward glance.

You can ignore reality, but you can’t ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.

Patience is always rewarded and romance is always round the corner!

I started my life with a single absolute: that the world was mine to shape in the image of my highest values and never to be given up to a lesser standard, no matter how long or hard the struggle.

The entire history of science is a progression of exploded fallacies.

Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think that you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong.

Whoever claims the right to redistribute the wealth produced by others is claiming the right to treat human beings as chattel.

You love people not for what you do for them or what they do for you. You love them for the values, the virtues, which they have achieved in their own character.

Live and act within the limit of your knowledge and keep expanding it to the limit of your life.

There is no difference between communism and socialism, except in the means of achieving the same ultimate end: communism proposes to enslave men by force, socialism – by vote. It is merely the difference between murder and suicide.

Poverty is not a mortgage on the labor of others-misfortune.

The man who speaks to you of sacrifice, speaks of slaves and masters. And intends to be the master.

An honest man is one who knows that he can’t consume more than he has produced.

A society that robs an individual of the product of his effort is not strictly speaking a society, but a mob held together by institutionalized gang violence.

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

But what if I fail of my purpose here? It is but to keep the nerves at strain, to dry one’s eyes and laugh at a fall, and baffled, get up and begin again.

Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification.

Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.

In love with September’s sun the season that begins all witchy things and stirs the soul.

In the beginning, I wrote OK songs, but they didn’t have a unique perspective.

The human mind prefers to be spoon-fed with the thoughts of others, but deprived of such nourishment it will, reluctantly, begin to think for itself – and such thinking, remember, is original thinking and may have valuable results.

My book came out; and people began to think that topsy-turvy Louisa would amount to something after all.

Aprils have never meant much to me, autumns seem that season of beginning, spring.