Is it advisable to spread out all the conveniences of culture before people to whom a few steps up a stair to a library is a sufficient deterrent from reading?

Do you know the hallmark of the second-rater? It's resentment of another man's achievement.

It stands to reason that if sacrifices are being given, somebody is collecting sacrifices.

A moment or an eternity—did it matter? Life, undefeated, existed and could exist.

Only the man who extols the purity of love devoid of desire, is capable of the depravity of a desire devoid of love.

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

Whenever anyone accuses some person of being 'unfeeling,' he means that that person is just. He means that that person has no causeless emotions and will not grant him a feeling which he does not deserve. He means that 'to feel' is to go against reason, against moral values, against reality.