I take no pride in hopeless longing; I wouldn't hold a still... - Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

"We are born into this world unarmed - our mind is our only weapon."

"She watched the tunnels as they flowed past: bare walls of concrete, a net of pipes and wires, a web of rails that went off into black holes where green and red lights hung as distant drops of color. There was nothing else to dilute it, so that one could admire naked purpose and the ingenuity that had achieved it."

"I never found beauty in longing for the impossible and never found the possible to be beyond my reach."

"If you don't know, the thing to do is not to get scared, but to learn."

"Devotion to the truth is the hallmark of morality; there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act of a man who assumes the responsibility of thinking."