Do not let your fire go out.

Dominique as Gail looks at her "... there is a stage of worship which makes the worshiper himself an object of reverence."

Creation comes before distribution - or there will be nothing to distribute. The need of the creator comes before the need of any possible beneficiary. Yet we are taught to admire the second-hander who dispenses gifts he has not produced above the man who made the gifts possible. We praise an act of charity. We shrug at an act of achievement.

America’s founding ideal was the principle of individual rights. Nothing more-and nothing less. The rest-everything that America achieved, everything she became, everything 'noble and just,' and heroic, and great, and unprecedented in human history-was the logical consequence of fidelity to that one principle.

I am a man who does not exist for others.

The worst guilt is to accept an undeserved guilt — and that is what you have been doing all your life.

The attack on "selfishness" is an attack on man's self-esteem; to surrender one, is to surrender the other.