I love you. As the same value, as the same expression, with the same pride and the same meaning as I love my work, my mills, my Metal, my hours at a desk, at a furnace, in a laboratory, in an ore mine, as I love my ability to work, as I love the act of sight and knowledge, as I love the action of my mind when it solves a chemical equation or grasps a sunrise, as I love the things I've made and the things I've felt, as *my* product, as *my* choice, as a shape of my world, as my best mirror, as the wife I've never had, as that which makes all the rest of it possible: as my power to live.
Ayn RandAsk anything of men. Ask them to achieve wealth, fame, love, brutality, murder, self-sacrifice. But donโt ask them to achieve self-respect. They will hate your soul.
Ayn RandNo speech is ever considered, but only the speaker. It's so much easier to pass judgement on a man than on an idea.
Ayn Rand