Altruism does not mean mere kindness or generosity, but the sacrifice of the best among men to the worst, the sacrifice of virtues to flaws, of ability to incompetence, of progress to stagnation-and the subordinating of all life and of all values to the claims of anyone's suffering.

You have no choice about your capacity to feel that something is good for you or evil, but what you will consider good or evil, what will give you joy or pain, what you will love or hate, desire or fear, depends on your standard of value.

Do you mean to tell me that you're thinking seriously of building that way, when and if you are an architect?" Yes." My dear fellow, who will let you?" That's not the point. The point is, who will stop me?

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

The man who lets a leader prescribe his course is a wreck being towed to the scrap heap.

Kill reverence and you've killed the hero in man.

Litigants obey the verdict of a tribunal solely on the premise that there is an objective rule of conduct, which they both accept.