To say 'I love you' one must know first how to say the 'I'.

Don't help me or serve me, but let me see it once, because I need it. Don't work for my happiness, my brothers—show me yours—show me that it is possible—show me your achievement—and the knowledge will give me the courage for mine. Mallory (the young artist) to Roark in "The Fountainhead"

The secrets of this earth are not for all men to see, but only for those who will seek them.

""You were not born to be a second-hander." Howard Roark to Gail Wynand in "The Fountainhead""

"There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil."

About Mike the construction worker, friend of Roark: "He worshipped expertness of any kind. He loved his work passionately and had no tolerance for anything save for other single-track devotions. He was a master in his own filed and felt no sympathy except for mastery. His view of the world was simple: there were the able and there were the incompetent; he was not concerned with the latter.

You must be the kind of man who can get things done. But to get things done, you must love the doing, not the secondary consequences.

[Roark to Keating:] If you want my advice, Peter," he said at last, "you've made a mistake already. By asking me. By asking anyone. Never ask people. Not about your work. Don't you know what you want? How can you stand it, not to know?"

She knew she could not have reached this white serenity except as the sum of all the colors, of all the violence she had known.

To say 'I love you' one must know first how to say the 'I.'

Why do they always teach us that it is easy and evil to do what we want and that we need discipline to restrain ourselves. It's the hardest thing in the world--to do what we want. And it takes the greatest kind of courage.

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