Worry is a waste of emotional reserve".

A man who seeks escape from the responsibility of supporting his life by his own thought and effort, and wishes to survive by conquering, ruling and exploiting others, is NOT an Individualist.

A rational mind does not work under compulsion; it does not subordinate its grasp of reality to anyone's orders, directives, or controls; it does not sacrifice its knowledge, its view of the truth, to anyone's opinions, threats, wishes, plans.

Every government interference in the economy consists of giving an unearned benefit, extorted by force, to some men at the expense of others.

Psychologically, the choice "to think or not" is the choice "to focus or not." Existentially, the choice "to focus or not" is the choice "to be conscious or not." Metaphysically, the choice "to be conscious or not" is the choice of life or death.

For they have nothing to fight me with, save the brute force of their numbers. I have my mind.

There can be no justification for choosing any part of that which one knows to be evil.