Happiness is a state of non-contradictory joy--a joy without penalty or guilt, a joy that does not clash with any of your values and does not work for your own destruction, not the joy of escaping from your mind, but of using your mind's fullest power, not the joy of faking reality, but of achieving values that are real, not the joy of a drunkard, but of a producer.
Ayn RandMy morality, the morality of reason, is contained in a single axiom: existence exists - and in a single choice: to live.
Ayn RandThis is pity,” he thought, and then he lifted his head in wonder. He thought that there must be something terribly wrong with a world in which this monstrous feeling is called a virtue.
Ayn RandThe fight we are in here, make no mistake about it, is a fight of individualism versus collectivism.
Ayn Rand