My power is my property. My power gives me property. My power am I myself, and through it am I my property.

The State calls its own violence, law; but that of the individual, crime.

Whoever will be free must make himself free. Freedom is no fairy gift to fall into a man's lap. What is freedom? To have the will to be responsible for one's self.

Freedom cannot be granted. It must be taken.

Whoso is full of sacred (religious, moral, humane) love loves only the spook, the "true man," and persecutes with dull mercilessness the individual, the real man.

We don't call it sin today, we call it self-expression.

Religion itself is without genius. There is no religious genius and no one would be permitted to distinguish between the talented and the untalented in religion.

If it is right for me, it is right. It is possible that it is wrong for others: let them take care of themselves!

A race of altruists is necessarily a race of slaves. A race of free men is necessarily a race of egoists.

Whoever is a complete person does not need to be an authority.

He who is infatuated with Man leaves persons out of account so far as that infatuation extends, and floats in an ideal, sacred interest. Man, you see, is not a person, but an ideal, a spook.

Do you imagine that a city can continue to exist and not be turned upside down, if the legal judgments which are pronounced in it have no force but are nullified and destroyed by private persons?

My worst hair experience was when I was trying to relax my hair and my grandmother did it. It went all straight and I looked like a black Bee Gee.

I don't know about other people, but when I wake up in the morning and put my shoes on, I think, Jesus Christ, now what?

It's not just self defense, it's about...self control, body discipline, and mind discipline...and breath techniques. It involves yoga. It involves meditation. It's an art, not a sport.

One thing about golf is you don't know why you play bad and why you play good.

Geometry is to the plastic arts what grammar is to the art of the writer.

Women must be very gentle with men as they, as well as women, seek to regain the lost wholeness for which they were destined.

I'm a huge fan of the Navy. My father was a Naval historian, and I've been studying Naval battles forever.

The gossip is like chocolate - a small indulgence in an otherwise serious diet.

I'm tired again, I've tried again, and now my heart is full. And I just can't explain...so I won't even try to.