Citizenship is an attitude, a state of mind, an emotional conviction that the whole is greater than the part...and that the part should be humbly proud to sacrifice itself that the whole may live.

Make money, lose money - who cares? The idea is to enjoy it.

I have never been impressed by the formal schools of ethics.

You live and learn. Or you don't live long.

Humans hardly ever learn from the experience of others. They learn - when they do, which isn't often - on their own, the hard way.

The basic of all morality is duty, a concept with the same relation to group that self-interest has to individual.

Of all the nonsense that twists the world, the concept of 'altruism' is the worst. People do what they want to, every time. If it pains them to make a choice - if the choice looks like a 'sacrifice' - you can be sure that it is no nobler than the discomfort caused by greediness... the necessity of deciding between two things you want when you can't have both.