I would step in the way of a bullet if it were aimed at my husband. It is not self-sacrifice to die protecting that which you value: If the value is great enough, you do not care to exist without it.

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

The more neurotic and evasive a person is, the shorter the range of his interests.

Not selfishness, but precisely the absence of a self. Look at them. The man who cheats and lies, but preserves a respectable front. He knows himself to be dishonest, but others think he’s honest and he derives his self-respect from that, second-hand. The man who takes credit for an achievement which is not his own. He knows himself to be mediocre, but he’s great in the eyes of others.

...if men are to be ruled, then the enemy is reason.

Whatever road I take, the guiding star is within me; the guiding star and the loadstone which point the way. They point in but one direction. They point to me.

If some men are entitled by right to the products of the work of others, it means that those others are deprived of rights and condemned to slave labor.