I feel that others live up to me, if they want me.

You have been called selfish for the courage of acting on your own judgement and bearing sole responsibility for your own life. You have been called arrogant for your independent mind. You have been called cruel for your unyielding integrity. You have been calle anti social for the vision that made you venture upon undiscovered roads.

A rational man is guided by his thinking - by a process of Reason - not by his feelings and desires.

The virtue involved in helping those one loves is not 'selflessness' or 'sacrifice,' but integrity.

Did you get your money by fraud? By pandering to men's vices or men's stupidity? By catering to fools, in the hope of getting more than your ability deserves? By lowering your standards? By doing work you despise for purchasers you scorn? If so, then your money will not give you a moment's or a penny's worth of joy. Then all the things you buy will become, not a tribute to you, but a reproach; not an achievement, but a reminder of shame.

The freedom of speech of private individuals includes the right to not agree, not to listen, and not to finance one's own antagonists.

A moment or an eternity—did it matter? Life, undefeated, existed and could exist.