The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity.

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.

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.

Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.

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

When I die, I hope to go to Heaven, whatever the Hell that is.

Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death.

Upper classes are a nation's past; the middle class is its future.

We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force.

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.

Potentially, 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.

Individual rights are the means of subordinating society to moral law.

Money is the barometer of a society's virtue.

Government 'help' to business is just as disastrous as government persecution... the only way a government can be of service to national prosperity is by keeping its hands off.

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

Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.

So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of all money?

Money demands that you sell, not your weakness to men's stupidity, but your talent to their reason.

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.

Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice.

To achieve, you need thought. You have to know what you are doing and that's real power.

Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps, down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision.

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

When man learns to understand and control his own behavior as well as he is learning to understand and control the behavior of crop plants and domestic animals, he may be justified in believing that he has become civilized.

Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone.

God... a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man's power to conceive.