Anyone who fights for the future, lives in it today.

An attempt to achieve the good by force is like an attempt to provide a man with a picture gallery at the price of cutting out his eyes.

My philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute.

Every form of happiness if one, every desire is driven by the same motor--by our love for a single value, for the highest potentiality of our own existence--and every achievement is an expression of it.

In any compromise between food and poison, it is only death that can win. In any compromise between good and evil, it is only evil that can profit.

An inventor is a man who asks 'Why?' of the universe and lets nothing stand between the answer and his mind.

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

A moment or an eternity—did it matter? Life, undefeated, existed and could exist.

You know, I think that only if one feels immensely important can one feel truly light.