My views on charity are very simple. I do not consider it a major virtue and, above all, I do not consider it a moral duty. There is nothing wrong in helping other people, if and when they are worthy of the help and you can afford to help them. I regard charity as a marginal issue. What I am fighting is the idea that charity is a moral duty and a primary virtue.

The concept of free competition enforced by law is a grotesque contradiction in terms.

Integrity is the recognition of the fact that you cannot fake your consciousness, just as honesty is the recognition of the fact that you cannot fake existence.

A viler evil than to murder a man, is to sell him suicide as an act of virtue.

The symbol of all relationships among such men, the moral symbol of respect for human beings, is the trader. We, who live by values, not by loot, are traders, both in matter and in spirit. A trader is a man who earns what he gets and does not give or take the undeserved.

Do not set out to write with your eyes on the box office. It can't be done.

Aquinas brought an Aristotelian view of reason back into European culture, and lighted the way toward the Renaissance.