There is no dignity quite so impressive, and no one independence quite so important, as living within your means.

You have to dream before your dreams can come true.

People are always shouting they want to create a better future. It's not true. The future is an apathetic void of no interest to anyone. The past is full of life, eager to irritate us, provoke and insult us, tempt us to destroy or repaint it. The only reason people want to be masters of the future is to change the past.

One gratifying aspect of our rise to some prominence is that, for the first time in my memory, we, 'our side,' had captured a crucial word from the enemy . . . 'Libertarians' . . . had long been simply a polite word for left-wing anarchists, that is for anti-private property anarchists, either of the communist or syndicalist variety. But now we had taken it over...

Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.

Give us what belongs to us in peace, and if you don't give it to us in peace, we will take it by force.