He stepped to the window and pointed to the skyscrapers of the city. He said that we had to extinguish the lights of the world, and when we would see the lights of New York go out, we would know that our job was done.

The doctrine that 'human rights' are superior to 'property rights' simply means that some human beings have the right to make property out of others.

Freedom (n.): To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.

I need no warrant for being, and no word of sanction upon my being. I am the warrant and the sanction.

Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love.

Guilt is altruism's stock in trade, and the inducing of guilt is its only means of self-perpetuati on.

If a life can have a 'theme-song' - and I believe every worthwhile one has - mine is [best] expressed in one word: Individualism.