No concept man forms is valid unless he integrates it without contradiction into the sum of his knowledge.
Ayn RandI like to think of fire held in a man's hand. Fire, a dangerous force, tamed at his fingertips. I often wonder about the hours when a man sits alone, watching the smoke of a cigarette, thinking. I wonder what great things have come from such hours. When a man thinks, there is a spot of fire alive in his mind--and it is proper that he should have the burning point of a cigarette as his one expression.
Ayn RandThere were things in my past which I have not liked. But all the things of which I was proud will remain.
Ayn Rand