Do not let your fire go out.

You love people, not for what you do for them or what they do for you. You love them for their values; their virtues.

Doctors are not servants of their patients, they are traders like everyone else in a free society and they should bear that title proudly considering the crucial importance of the services they offer.

A morality that holds need as a claim, holds emptiness-non-existence-as its standard of value; it rewards an absence, a defect: weakness, inability, incompetence, suffering, disease, disaster, the lack, the fault, the flaw-the zero.

Because I never have any definite destination. This ship is not for going to places, but for getting away from them. When I stop at a port, it's only for the sheer pleasure of leaving it. I always think: here's one more place that can't hold me.

to rest one's case on faith means to concede that reason is on the side of one's enemies- that one has no rational arguments to offer.

If one's actions are honest, one does not need the predated confidence of others.