E. O. Wilson, the Harvard entomologist and evolutionary biologist, is reputed to have said of socialism: “Great idea. Wrong species.” Any system that is built on a false understanding of human nature is doomed to fail.

Nothing’s done well when it’s done out of self-interest.

I don’t do what you people want. I Do What I Want!

Self-interest, to be sure, is one of the most important, but we have many other motives – honesty, self-respect, altruism, love, sympathy, faith, sense of duty, solidarity, loyalty, public-spiritedness, patriotism, and so on – that are sometimes even more important than self-seeking as the driver of our behaviors.

Self-interest is the enemy of all true affection

Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self-interest.

I’m my own competition, I’m competin’ with myself.

People who bore one another should meet seldom; people who interest one another, often

Man serves the interests of no creature except himself.

The secret of success is doing something you love, doing it well and being recognized for it.

Nothing wrong with being from the hood, but I’d rather my kids be visitors than residents.

Hopefully I’ve gotten better as an actor as the years have gone on, but the type of work I want to do has never changed.

I wanted to be myself. I wanted to be a free person.

I don’t want to be defined as someone’s girlfriend.

I believe in stopping work and eating lunch.

I have now understood that though it seems to men that they live by care for themselves, in truth it is love alone by which they live.