Do it first and feel about it afterwards.' - Dagny Taggart

Within the extent of your knowledge, you are right.

There is no affirmation without the one who affirms. in this sense, everything to which you grant your love is yours

Did you get your money by fraud? By pandering to men's vices or men's stupidity? By catering to fools, in the hope of getting more than your ability deserves? By lowering your standards? By doing work you despise for purchasers you scorn? If so, then your money will not give you a moment's or a penny's worth of joy. Then all the things you buy will become, not a tribute to you, but a reproach; not an achievement, but a reminder of shame.

Man's unique reward, however, is that while animals survive by adjusting themselves to their background, man survives by adjusting his background to himself.

I refuse to accept as guilt the fact of my own existence.

We are born into this world unarmed - our mind is our only weapon.