Before I met Ayn Rand, I was a logical positivist, and accordingly, I didn't believe in absolutes, moral or otherwise. If I couldn't prove a proposition with facts and figures, it was without merit.

I have found no greater satisfaction than achieving success through honest dealing and strict adherence to the view that, for you to gain, those you deal with should gain as well.

The need for values is inbred. Their content is not.

The number one problem in today's generation and economy is the lack of financial literacy.

I guess I should warn you, if I turn out to be particularly clear, you've probably misunderstood what I've said.

Protectionism will do little to create jobs and if foreigners retaliate, we will surely lose jobs.

Remember what we're looking at. Gold is a currency. It is still, by all evidence, a premier currency, that no fiat currency, including the dollar, can match.

When trust is lost, a nation's ability to transact business is palpably undermined.

In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There is no safe store of value.

Gold still represents the ultimate form of payment in the world. Fiat money in extremis is accepted by nobody. Gold is always accepted.

To succeed, you will soon learn, as I did, the importance of a solid foundation in the basics of education - literacy, both verbal and numerical, and communication skills.

Your love is as stable as you are: It's not about how good a person makes you feel, but rather what good you can do for them.

Shall I count to ten and then ring a bell before I dive down between your legs?” Dustin teased and sent her a wicked smile.

Man would be otherwise. That is the essence of the specifically human.

While we wait in silence for that final luxury of fearlessness the weight of that silence will choke us.

Christianity is an idea, and as such is indestructible and immortal, like every idea.

The more freedoms Americans lose, the more dangerous government becomes.

To be loved for what one is, that is the greatest exception. The great majority love in others only what they lend him; their own selves, their version of him.

A perfect storm is in the making: financial uncertainty, economic downturn, government cuts, rising unemployment and a future that looks less clear the more we try to fathom it.

So,” Wanda cried, “a woman in furs is nothing more than a large cat, a charged electric battery?

It's all in your headJ you have the power to make things seem hard or easy or even amusing. The choice is yours.