If parasitism, favoritism, corruption, and greed for the unearned did not exist, a mixed economy would bring them into existence.

The fact that a man has no claim on others ... does not preclude or prohibit good will among men and does not make it immoral to offer or to accept voluntary, non-sacrificial assistance.

Man has a single basic choice: to think or not, and that is the gauge of his virtue. Moral perfection is an unbreached rationality-not the degree of your intelligence, but the full and relentless use of your mind, not the extent of your knowledge, but the acceptance of reason as an absolute.

The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.

Men prosper or fail, survive or perish in proportion to the degree of their rationality.

In this world, either you're virtuous or you enjoy yourself. Not both, lady, not both.

She sat leaning back in her chair, looking ahead, knowing that he was as aware of her as she was of him. She found pleasure in the special self-consciousness it gave her. When she crossed her legs, when she leaned on her arm against the window sill, when she brushed her hair off her forehead - every movement of her body was underscored by a feeling the unadmitted words for which were: Is he seeing it?