“Our dilemma is that we hate change and love it at the same time; what we really want is for things to reamin the same but get better... ”

“They say that we are better educated than our parents' generation. What they mean is that we go to school longer. It is not the same thing.”

“Maybe as times get worse we get better. Our pain makes us feel other peoples too; our fear lets us practice valor; we are tense, and tender as well. And among the things we can no longer afford are things we never really wanted anyway...”

“Fear and love can never be experienced at the same time. It is always our choice as to which of these emotions we want...”

“And so, it is not astonishing that, though the patient enters therapy insisting that he wants to change, more often than not, what he really wants is to remain the same and to get the therapist to make him feel better. (4)”

“Dagny, we can never lose the things we live for. We may have to change their form at times, if we've made an error, but the purpose remains the same and the forms are ours to make.”