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

What whip lashed them to their knees in shame and submission? The worship of the word "We.

The meaning ascribed in popular usage to the word 'selfishness' is not merely wrong: it represents a devastating intellectual 'package-deal,' which is responsible, more than any other single factor, for the arrested moral development of mankind.

To know one's own desires, their meaning and their costs requires the highest human virtue: rationality.

The world is perishing from an orgy of self-sacrificing.

Joy is the goal of existence, and joy is not to be stumbled upon, but to be achieved, and the act of treason is to let its vision drown in the swamp of the moment's torture.

Power-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind.