Whatever their future, at the dawn of their lives, men seek... - Ayn Rand

"If that which we have found is the corruption of solitude, then what can men wish for save corruption? If this is the great evil of being alone, than what is good and what is evil?"

"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."

"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."

"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."

"The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me."