A man's ego is the fountainhead of human progress.

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?

You know, I think that only if one feels immensely important can one feel truly light.

I know not if this earth on which I stand is the core of the universe or if it is but a speck of dust lost in eternity. I know not and I care not. For I know what happiness is possible to me on earth. And my happiness needs no higher aim to vindicate it. My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own purpose.

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.

Faith is the wors curse of mankind, as the exact antithesis and enemy of thought.

The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.