“Growth in the number of humans is associated with decline in humanity.”
“To be successful, you need to do two things:1. Condition your hair,2. Do the same with your mind.”
“Courage is not the absence of fear but rather the judgement that something is more important than fear; The brave may not live forever but the cautious do not live at all.”
“Rearden sat in his room at the Wayne-Falkland Hotel, fighting an enemy more dangerous than weariness or fear: revulsion against the thought of having to deal with human beings.”
“There was more courage in bearing trouble than in escaping from it; the brave and the energetic cling to hope, even in spite of fortune; the cowardly and the indolent are hurried by their fears,' said Plotius Firmus, Roman Praetorian Guard.”
“More brave than firm,and more disposed to dareAnd die at oncethan wrestle with despair...”