More quotes by Ayn Rand

"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."
"The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities."
"Have you ever felt the longing for someone you could admire? For something, not to look down at, but up to?"
"I can accept anything, except what seems to be the easiest for most people: the half-way, the almost, the just-about, the in-between."
"He is free to evade reality, he is free to unfocus his mind and stumble blindly down any road he pleases, but not free to avoid the abyss he refuses to see."