“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.”

I am done with this creed of corruption.

To love a woman for her virtues is meaningless.

You have been the one encounter in my life that can never be repeated.

Man will always be attracted to the woman who reflects his deepest vision of himself, the woman whose surrender permits him to experience a sense of self-esteem.

The essential characteristic of socialism is the denial of individual property rights.

She knew that even pain can be confessed, but to confess happiness is to stand naked, delivered to the witness.

People create their own questions because they are afraid to look straight. All you have to do is look straight and see the road, and when you see it, don’t sit looking at it – walk.

Racism is the lowest, most crudely primitive form of collectivism.

The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see.

Joy is the goal of existence, and joy is not to be stumbled upon, but to be achieved, and the act of treason is to let its vision drown in the swamp of the moment’s torture.

Indiscriminate tolerance and indiscriminate condemnation are not two opposites: they are two variants of the same evasion.

As we gain knowledge, we do not become more certain, we become certain of more.

Don’t ever give up what you want in life. The struggle is worth it.

Rationalization is a process of not perceiving reality, but of attempting to make reality fit one’s emotions.

Inflation is not caused by the actions of private citizens, but by the government

The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.

My biggest goal in life will be achieved when I have a family, when I have my own kids that I can raise myself and bring up based on what I know. I always think it’s the wildest idea – raising a whole, entire human is insane to me, and I’ve always wanted kids.

Thoroughness characterizes all successful men. Genius is the art of taking infinite pains. All great achievement has been characterized by extreme care, infinite painstaking, even to the minutest detail.

No one has ever achieved anything from the smallest to the greatest unless the dream was dreamed first.

Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.

If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement.

Go for the moon. If you don’t get it, you’ll still be heading for a star. Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of the creative effort.

Religious faith obscures uncertainty where uncertainty exists, allowing the unknown, the implausible, and the false to achieve primacy over the facts.

Your greatest achievement is to love me.