Have you ever felt the longing for someone you could admire?... - Ayn Rand

"A culture is made — or destroyed — by its articulate voices."

"Whatever their future, at the dawn of their lives, men seek a noble vision of man's nature and of life's potential."

"Definitions are the guardians of rationality, the first line of defense against the chaos of mental disintegration."

"Why do they always teach us that it's easy and evil to do what we want and that we need discipline to restrain ourselves? It's the hardest thing in the world--to do what we want. And it takes the greatest kind of courage. I mean, what we really want."

"A moment or an eternity—did it matter? Life, undefeated, existed and could exist."