In any compromise between food and poison, it is only death... - Ayn Rand

"Have you ever felt the longing for someone you could admire? For something, not to look down at, but up to?"

"The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. Whenever evil wins, it is only by default: by the moral failure of those who evade the fact that there can be no compromise on basic principles."

"The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities."

"Every form of happiness if one, every desire is driven by the same motor--by our love for a single value, for the highest potentiality of our own existence--and every achievement is an expression of it."

"Aristotle may be regarded as the cultural barometer of Western history. Whenever his influence dominated the scene, it paved the way for one of history's brilliant eras; whenever it fell, so did mankind."