This was the great clarity of being beyond emotion, after the reward of having felt everything one could feel.

Emotions are not tools of cognition. They tell you nothing about the nature of reality.

A free mind and a free market are corollaries.

Peter Keating: "Do you always have to have a purpose? Do you always have to be so damn serious? Can't you ever do things without reason, just like everybody else? You're so serious, so old. Everything's important with you. Everything's great, significant in some way, every minute, even when you keep still. Can't you ever be comfortable-and unimportant?" | Howard Roark: "No."

Worry is a waste of emotional reserve".

Volumes can be and have been written about the issue of freedom versus dictatorship, but, in essence, it comes down to a single question: do you consider it moral to treat men as sacrificial animals and to rule them by physical force?

I think. I am. I will.