Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values.

I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.

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.

To say 'I love you' one must first be able to say the 'I.'

Love is the expression of one's values, the greatest reward you can earn for the moral qualities you have achieved in your character and person, the emotional price paid by one man for the joy he receives from the virtues of another.

I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.

The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.

Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.

The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it.

If any civilization is to survive, it is the morality of altruism that men have to reject.