“The man who is wrong still retains some respect for truth, if only by accepting the responsibility of choice.”

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.

A government is the most dangerous threat to man’s rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims.

Be happy with who you are and what you do, and you can do anything you want.

I agree that faith is essential to success in life, but I do not accept your definition of faith, i.e. belief in life after death.

Equanimity arises when we accept the way things are.

These days everything has a dark mode. I feel – accepted.

The world wants to assign you a role in life. And once you accept that role you are doomed.

A zebra does not change its spots.

The trance of unworthiness keeps the sweetness of belonging out of reach. The path to “the sweetness of belonging,” is acceptance – acceptance of ourselves and acceptance of others without judgment.

I can’t overestimate the importance of accepting ourselves exactly as we are right now, not as we wish we were or think we ought to be.