“We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality.”

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.

The government was set to protect man from criminals, and the Constitution was written to protect man from the government.

Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.

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.

The government was set to protect man from criminals, and the Constitution was written to protect man from the government.

We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality.

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.

I want to be a jerk like the rest of my friends, and have fun, and not care about the consequences, but I just can’t now.

Follow your instincts and live with the consequences.

Give yourself no choice but to succeed. let the consequences of failure become so dire and so unthinkable that you’ll have no choice but to do whatever it takes to succeed.

It is wrong and immoral to seek to escape the consequences of one’s acts.

Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying basic fundamentals.

Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences.

Happiness and personal fulfillment are the natural consequences of doing the right thing.

One of the consequences of such notions as ‘entitlements’ is that people who have contributed nothing to society feel that society owes them something, apparently just for being nice enough to grace us with their presence.