The only proper functions of a government are: the police, to protect you from criminals; the army, to protect you from foreign invaders; and the courts, to protect your property and contracts from breach or fraud by others, and to settle disputes by rational rules, according to objective law.

If he can give his readers no reason why they should read his book, except that the events happened to him, it is not a valid book.

To say 'I love you' one must first be able to say the 'I.'

A quest for self-respect is proof of its lack

Reason can be fought with reason. How are you going to fight the unreasonable? The trouble with you, my dear, and with most people, is that you don’t have sufficient respect for the senseless. The senseless is the major factor in our lives. You have no chance if it is your enemy.

to rest one's case on faith means to concede that reason is on the side of one's enemies- that one has no rational arguments to offer.

There is nothing wrong in helping other people, if and when they are worthy of the help and you can afford to help them.