Most people feel that they rise in their own eyes, if others want them.”“I feel that others live up to me, if they want me...

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

We are born into this world unarmed - our mind is our only weapon.

Whenever a man denounces the mind, it is because his goal is of a nature the mind would not permit him to confess.

Live and act within the limit of your knowledge and keep expanding it to the limit of your life.

I started my life with a single absolute: that the world was mine to shape in the image of my highest values and never to be given up to a lesser standard, no matter how long or hard the struggle.

Power-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind.

I never found beauty in longing for the impossible and never found the possible to be beyond my reach.

Joy is the goal of existence, and joy is not to be stumbled upon, but to be achieved, and the act of treason is to let its vision drown in the swamp of the moment's torture.

The desire not to be anything is the desire not to be.

I think, therefore I'll think.

Be the fountain of love and let everyone wade in it.

Reason is the substance of the universe. The design of the world is absolutely rational.

Life had not taught me to distrust ministers, but it had taught me to trust no one more than dogs.

Basically, man, I just love myself.

There is only one true wealth in all the universe. I have given you some of it. I have given your father and your mate some of it. And your friends. This wealth is living time.

It is always the task of the intellectual to "think otherwise." This is not just a perverse idiosyncrasy. It is an absolutely essential feature of a society.

I was a member of the Armed Services Committee for 18 years. I spent a big chunk of my life studying national security issues and our role in the world.

If you never tasted a bad apple, you would not appreciate a good apple. You have to experience life to understand life.

During the Prince's visit, King Timahoe will be referred to only as Timahoe, since it would be inappropriate for the Prince to be outranked by a dog.

This policeman came up to me with a pencil and a piece of very thin paper. He said, "I want you to trace someone for me."