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.

Money is just a tool. It will take you anywhere you want, but you have to be the driver

To be the kind of writer you want to be, you must first be the kind of thinker you want to be.

For centuries, the mystics of spirit had existed by running a protection racket - by making life on earth unbearable, then charging you for consolation and relief, by forbidding all the virtues that make existence possible, then riding on the shoulders of your guilt, by declaring production and joy to be sins, then collecting blackmail from the sinners.

A rational man knows-or makes it a point to discover-the source of his emotions, the basic premises from which they come.

Their eyes were dark and hard and glowing, with no fear in them, no kindness and no guilt.

[Altruism] is a moral system which holds that man has no right to exist for his own sake, that service to others is the sole justification of his existence, and that self-sacrifice is his highest moral duty, value and virtue. This is the moral base of collectivism, of all dictatorships.