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She had learned, in the slums of her childhood, that honest people were never touchy about the matter of being trusted.
The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity.
My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own purpose.
Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.
Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness.
The difference between animals and humans is that animals change themselves for the environment, but humans change the environment for themselves.
Get the hell out of my way!
Evil requires the sanction of the victim.
If the truth shall kill them, let them die.
Money is the barometer of a society's virtue.
The worst guilt is to accept an unearned guilt.
Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think.
Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death.
To say 'I love you' one must first be able to say the 'I.'
The more you learn, the more you know that you know nothing.
The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it.
A building has integrity just like a man. And just as seldom.
When I die, I hope to go to Heaven, whatever the Hell that is.
Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins.
Upper classes are a nation's past; the middle class is its future.
It was the greatest sensation of existence: not to trust but to know.
Individual rights are the means of subordinating society to moral law.
The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.
I don't build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build.
Allies never trust each other, but that doesn't spoil their effectiveness.
That which is not worth contemplating in life, is not worth recreating in art.
That's a cute sentence: the years to come. Why are you so sure they're coming?
There is no such thing as a lousy job - only lousy men who don't care to do it.
If one doesn't respect oneself one can have neither love nor respect for others.
All life is a purposeful struggle, and your only choice is the choice of a goal.
God... a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man's power to conceive.
I would give the greatest sunset in the world for one sight of New York's skyline.
The world you desire can be won, it exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours.
A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.
The man who lets a leader prescribe his course is a wreck being towed to the scrap heap.
To achieve, you need thought. You have to know what you are doing and that's real power.
Their eyes were dark and hard and glowing, with no fear in them, no kindness and no guilt.
If any civilization is to survive, it is the morality of altruism that men have to reject.
The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody had decided not to see.
The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.
There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist.
Money demands that you sell, not your weakness to men's stupidity, but your talent to their reason.
We are all brothers under the skin - and I, for one, would be willing to skin humanity to prove it.
So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of all money?
Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.
Truth is the recognition of reality; reason, man's only means of knowledge, is his only standard of truth.
There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil.
Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone.
The skyline of New York is a monument of a splendour that no pyramids or palaces will ever equal or approach.
Every aspect of Western culture needs a new code of ethics - a rational ethics - as a precondition of rebirth.
