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Because women live creatively, they rarely experience the need to depict or write about that which to them is a primary experience and which men know only at a second remove. Women create naturally, men create artificially.

Ten censure wrong, for one that writes amiss.

There is one way to handle the ignorant and malicious critic. Ignore him.

A conscience is like a baby. It has to go to sleep before you can.

Results are what you expect, and consequences are what you get.

When you can think of yesterday without regret and tomorrow without fear, you are near contentment.

Courage is not the absence of fear, but the conquest of it.

The tipping custom originated in England when small sums were dropped into a box marked T.I.P.S. --TO INSURE PROMPT SERVICE.

What you keep for yourself, you lose. What you give away, you keep forever.

The Islamic Republic is proud to be the target of the rage of the world's greatest Satan. in response to George W. Bush's assertion of Iran as part of an axis of evil

He had a big head and a face so ugly it became almost fascinating.

Thanksgiving is a typically American holiday...The lavish meal is a symbol of the fact that abundant consumption is the result and reward of production.

Guilt is a rope that wears thin.

There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist.

I can accept anthing, except what seems to be the easiest for most people: the half-way, the almost, the just-about, the in-between.

Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.

Men have been taught that it is a virtue to agree with others. But the creator is the man who disagrees. Men have been taught that it is a virtue to swim with the current. But the creator is the man who goes against the current. Men have been taught that it is a virtue to stand together. But the creator is the man who stands alone.

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.

Until and unless you discover that money is the root of all good, you ask for your own destruction. When money ceases to become the means by which men deal with one another, then men become the tools of other men. Blood, whips and guns--or dollars. Take your choice--there is no other.

Doctors are not servants of their patients, they are traders like everyone else in a free society and they should bear that title proudly considering the crucial importance of the services they offer.

Guilt is a rope that wears thin.

Rationality is the recognition of the fact that nothing can alter the truth and nothing can take precedence over that act of perceiving it.

Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.

Thanksgiving is a typically American holiday...The lavish meal is a symbol of the fact that abundant consumption is the result and reward of production.

The evil of the world is made possible by nothing but the sanction you give it.

It is not advisable, James, to venture unsolicited opinions. You should spare yourself the embarrassing discovery of their exact value to your listener.

The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.

I need no warrant for being, and no word of sanction upon my being. I am the warrant and the sanction.

The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. whenever evil wins, it is only by default by the moral failure of those who evade the fact that there can be no compromise on basic principles.

Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.

Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death.

A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.

The idea that 'the public interest' supersedes private interests and rights can have but one meaning that the interests and rights of some individuals take precedence over the interests and rights of others.

Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice.

When I die, I hope to go to Heaven, whatever the Hell that is.

America's abundance was not created by public sacrifices to the common good, but by the productive genius of free men who pursued their own personal interests and the making of their own private fortunes.

If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who, doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a machine, does not choose to know how the machine got there or what makes his job possible, and proclaims that the management of the undertaking is parasitical and unneccessary.

Live a life as a monument to your soul.

Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think that you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong.

Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think.

Money is the barometer of a society's virtue.

So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of all money

The secrets of this earth are not for all men to see, but only for those who seek them.

I need no warrant for being, and no word of sanction upon my being. I am the warrant and the sanction.

Pride is the recognition of the fact that you are your own highest value and, like all of man’s values, it has to be earned.

Honesty is the recognition of the fact that the unreal is unreal and can have no value, that neither love nor fame nor cash is a value if obtained by fraud.

Integrity is the recognition of the fact that you cannot fake your consciousness, just as honesty is the recognition of the fact that you cannot fake existence.

Independence is the recognition of the fact that yours is the responsibility of judgment and nothing can help you escape it.

Rationality is the recognition of the fact that nothing can alter the truth and nothing can take precedence over that act of perceiving it.

Love is our response to our highest values. Love is self-enjoyment. The noblest love is born out of admiration of another’s values.

Happiness is possible only to a rational man, the man who desires nothing but rational goals, seeks nothing but rational values and finds his joy in nothing buy rational actions.

Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplacable spark. In the hopeless swamps of the not quite, the not yet, and the not at all, do not let the hero in your soul perish and leave only frustration for the life you deserved, but never have been able to reach. The world you desire can be won, it exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours.

He was guilty of nothing, except that he earned his own fortune and never forgot that it was his.