“what can be truly loved about a person is inseparable from their limitations.”

Don’t use language instrumentally.

We may not exactly be God, but we’re not exactly nothing, either.

You can only find out what you actually believe (rather than what you think you believe) by watching how you act. You simply don’t know what you believe, before that. You are too complex to understand yourself.

Treat yourself like you would someone you’re responsible for helping.

Stop saying those things that make you weak and ashamed. Say only those things that make you strong. Do only those things that you could speak of with honor.

Territory matters, and there is little difference between territorial rights and social status. It is often a matter of life and death.

If you cannot understand why someone did something, look at the consequences – and infer the motivation.

You must determine where you are going in your life, because you cannot get there unless you move in that direction.

Order is not enough. You can’t just be stable, and secure, and unchanging, because there are still vital and important new things to be learned.

I’m not hurt. I’m appalled.

It’s the chattering buzz of ideologically possessed demons.

Beauty shames the ugly. Strength shames the weak. Death shames the living – and the Ideal shames us all.

I don’t think that you have any insight whatsoever into your capacity for good until you have some well-developed insight into your capacity for evil.

Experience is the best teacher, and the worst experiences teach the best lessons.

The successful among us delay gratification. The successful among us bargain with the future.

You deserve some respect. You are important to other people, as much as to yourself. You have some vital role to play in the unfolding destiny of the world.

The world is a bride of surpassing beauty-but remember that this maiden is never bound to anyone.

A minimum-wage law is, in reality, a law that makes it illegal for an employer to hire a person with limited skills.

Because we live in a largely free society, we tend to forget how limited is the span of time and the part of the globe for which there has ever been anything like political freedom: the typical state of mankind is tyranny, servitude, and misery.

Every economist knows that minimum wages either do nothing or cause inflation and unemployment. That’s not a statement, it’s a definition.

Image quality is not the product of a machine, but of the person who directs the machine, and there are no limits to imagination and expression.

The best way to make room for both life and career is to make choices deliberately-to set limits and stick to them.

Freedom of press is limited to those who own one.

When fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression.