What I am fighting is the idea that charity is a moral duty and a primary virtue.

Love is the expression of one's values, the greatest reward you can earn for the moral qualities you have achieved in your character and person, the emotional price paid by one man for the joy he receives from the virtues of another.

It stands to reason that if sacrifices are being given, somebody is collecting sacrifices.

Capitalism is a social system based on the recognition of individual rights, including property rights, in which all property is privately owned.

It was the only thing I ever really wanted. And that’s the sin that can’t be forgiven--that I hadn’t done what I wanted. It feels so dirty and pointless and monstrous, as one feels about insanity, because there’s no sense to it, no dignity, nothing but pain--and wasted pain...why do they always teach us that it’s easy and evil to do what we want and that we need discipline to restrain ourselves? It’s the hardest thing in the world--to do what we want. And it takes the greatest kind of courage.

Neither life nor happiness can be achieved by the pursuit of irrational whims.

No concept man forms is valid unless he integrates it without contradiction into the sum of his knowledge.