The moral absolute should be: if and when, in any dispute, one side initiates the use of physical force, that side is wrong - and no consideration or discussion of the issues is necessary or appropriate.

She felt a board indifference toward the immediate world around her toward other children and adults alike. She took it as a regrettable accident to be borne patiently for a while, that she happened to be imprisoned among people who were dull. She had caught a glimpse of another world and she knew it existed somewhere, the world that had created trains, bridges, telegraph wires and signal lights winking in the night. She had to wait she thought, and grow up to that world. - Dagny Taggart

No one's happiness but my own is in my power to achieve or to destroy.

There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist.

Face a challenge and find joy in the capacity to meet it.

Do not let your fire go out.

I am only concerned with politics so I may see the day when I don't have to be concerned with politics.