Altruism declares that any action taken for the benefit of others is good, and any action taken for one's own benefit is evil. Thus the beneficiary of an action is the only criterion of moral value - and so long as that beneficiary is anybody other than oneself, anything goes.

If it's worth doing, it's worth overdoing.

She's a writer. The kind of writer who wouldn't be published outside. She believes that when one deals with words, one deals with the mind.

I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.

An irresponsible person is a person who makes vague promises, then breaks his word, blames it on circumstances and expects other people to forgive it.

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

To abstain from condemning a torturer, is to become an accessory to the torture and murder of his victims.