Man is an end in himself. - Ayn Rand

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

"Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness."

"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."

"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."