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" Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper's bell of an approaching looter. "

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" 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. "

" A building has integrity just like a man. And just as seldom. "

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

" Do not ever say that the desire to 'do good' by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives. "

" People create their own questions because they are afraid to look straight. All you have to do is look straight and see the road, and when you see it, don't sit looking at it - walk. "

" From the smallest necessity to the highest religious abstraction, from the wheel to the skyscraper, everything we are and everything we have comes from one attribute of man - the function of his reasoning mind. "

" The worst guilt is to accept an unearned guilt. "

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

" Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values. "

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

" Every aspect of Western culture needs a new code of ethics - a rational ethics - as a precondition of rebirth. "

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

" Love is the expression of one's values, the greatest reward you can earn for the moral qualities you have achieved in your character and person, the emotional price paid by one man for the joy he receives from the virtues of another. "

" The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me. "

" Upper classes are a nation's past; the middle class is its future. "

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

" Money is the barometer of a society's virtue. "

" Only the man who does not need it, is fit to inherit wealth, the man who would make his fortune no matter where he started. "

" To say 'I love you' one must first be able to say the 'I.' "

" There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil. "

" I don't build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build. "

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

" When man learns to understand and control his own behavior as well as he is learning to understand and control the behavior of crop plants and domestic animals, he may be justified in believing that he has become civilized. "

" Man's unique reward, however, is that while animals survive by adjusting themselves to their background, man survives by adjusting his background to himself. "

" The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. "

" The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity. "

" Ask yourself whether the dream of heaven and greatness should be waiting for us in our graves - or whether it should be ours here and now and on this earth. "

" I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine. "