I am only concerned with politics so I may see the day when I don't have to be concerned with politics.

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.

I worship individuals for their highest possibilities as individuals and I loathe humanity for its failure to live up to these possibilities.

You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.

The man of authentic self-confidence is the man who relies on the judgment of his own mind. Such a man is not malleable; he may be mistaken, he may be fooled in a given instance, but he is inflexible in regard to the absolutism of reality, i.e., in seeking and demanding truth.

If you know that this life is all that you have, wouldn't you make the most of it?

To fear to face an issue is to believe that the worst is true.