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

If a society is to be free, its government has to be controlled.

Freedom is to ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.

Capitalism has been called a system of greed.

The source of the government’s authority is “the consent of the governed.

Never think of pain or danger or enemies a moment longer than is necessary to fight them.

Reality is an absolute, existence is an absolute, a speck of dust is an absolute and so is a human life.

If you don’t know, the thing to do is not to get scared, but to learn.

I don’t wish to be the symbol of anything. I’m only myself.

To deal with men by force is as impractical as to deal with nature by persuasion.

Do not keep silent when your own ideas and values are being attacked.

Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness.

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

Let me give you a tip on a clue to men’s characters: the man who damns money has obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it has earned it.

Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper’s bell of an approaching looter.

Identify the dominant philosophy of a society and you can predict its future.

If the truth shall kill them, let them die.

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

The most energetic workers I have encountered in my world travels are the vegetarian miners of Chile.

Any business plan won’t survive its first encounter with reality. The reality will always be different. It will never be the plan.

We have not yet encountered any god who is as merciful as a man who flicks a beetle over on its feet.

Yet, even amidst the hatred and carnage, life is still worth living. It is possible for wonderful encounters and beautiful things to exist.

Be not discouraged. There is a future for you. The resistance encountered now predicates hope.

If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.

The world is a great ocean, upon which we encounter more tempestuous storms than calms.