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

Capitalism has created the highest standard of living ever known on earth.

Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.

It is not death that we wish to avoid, but life that we wish to live.

The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.

A man’s sexual choice is the result and the sum of his fundamental convictions.

Compromise does not satisfy, but dissatisfies everybody; it does not lead to any general fulfillment, but to general frustration; those who try to become everything to all people end up by not being anything to anyone.

Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone.

A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.

Devotion to the truth is the hallmark of morality; there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act of a man who assumes the responsibility of thinking.

The problem is not those who dream, but those who can only dream.

I love you so much that nothing can matter to me, not even you, only my love, not your answer, not even your indifference

It is a free market that makes monopolies impossible.

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!

But I didn’t understand then. That I could hurt somebody so badly she would never recover. That a person can, just by living, damage another human being beyond repair.

Love is boundless. Human energy is not.

Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

Blessed are the weak who think that they are good because they have no claws.

A bitter truth: some people are comfortable with your acceptance of their abuse.⁣

People who cannot see through souls will keep searching for beauty in faces and will never find it.

I read one thing, and 100 people can say good things then you read one bad thing that says you’re the worst and you believe them.

Don’t let anyone take away your power.