Honor is self-esteem made visible in action.

She had learned, in the slums of her childhood, that honest people were never touchy about the matter of being trusted.

Self respect is something that can't be killed. The worst thing is to kill a man's pretense at it.

You know what you are actually in love with? Integrity. The impossible. The clean, consistent, reasonable, self-faithful, the all-of-one-style, like a work of art.

Rationality is the recognition of the fact that nothing can alter the truth and nothing can take precedence over that act of perceiving it.

Mr. Ward, what is it that the foulest bastards on earth denounce us for, among other things? Oh yes, for our motto of 'Business as usual.' Well-business as usual, Mr. Ward!

The creator's concern is the conquest of nature. The parasite's concern is the conquest of men.