Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.

What I am fighting is the idea that charity is a moral duty and a primary virtue.

Love should be treated like a business deal, but every business deal has its own terms and its own currency. And in love, the currency is virtue. You love people not for what you do for them or what they do for you. You love them for the values, the virtues, which they have achieved in their own character.

What I want you to understand, is the full evil of those who claim to have become convinced that this earth, by its nature, is a realm of malevolence where the good has no chance to win. Let them check their premises. Let them check their standards of value. Let them check - before they grant themselves the unspeakable license of evil-as-necessity - whether they know what is the good and what are the conditions it requires.

Creation comes before distribution -- or there will be nothing to distribute.

I think it's a sin to sit down and let your life go without making a try for it.

I loathe your ideals because I know no worse injustice than the giving of the undeserved.