"A man falls in love with and sexually desires the person who reflects his own deepest vaules...The quality that will attract him most is self esteem--self-esteem and an unclouded sense of the value of existence. To such a man, sex is an act of celebration, its meaning is a tribute to himself and to the woman he has chosen, the ultimate form of experienceing concretely and in his own person the value and joy of being alive."

-- Nathaniel Branden in The Virtue of Selfishness