The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.
The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone.
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.
To say 'I love you' one must know first how to say the 'I'.
The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.
From the fact that people are very different it follows that, if we treat them equally, the result must be inequality in their actual position.
There is all the difference in the world between treating people equally and attempting to make them equal.
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe.
All rational action is in the first place individual action. Only the individual thinks. Only the individual reasons. Only the individual acts.
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
The only obligation which I have a right to assume is to do at any time what I think right.
Any man more right than his neighbors constitutes a majority of one already.
The free development of each is the condition for the free development of all.
