"The Fountainhead" by Ayn Rand

These are some quotes which I find worth remembering.

• “Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artists metaphysical value judgments.”

• “Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.”

• “Self-sacrifice? But it is precisely the self that cannot and must not be sacrificed.” 

• “Don't think. Believe. Trust your heart, not your brain. Don't think. Feel. Believe.” 

• “Every loneliness is a pinnacle” 

• “A quest for self-respect is proof of its lack”

•  “Never ask people. Not about your work. Don't you know what you want? How can you stand it, not to know?”

• “Ask anything of men. Ask them to achieve wealth, fame, love, brutality, murder, self-sacrifice. But don’t ask them to achieve self-respect. They will hate your soul.” 

• Freedom. . .To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.”  

• The mind is the attribute of man. When man is born, he comes into existence with only one weapon with him- The reasoning mind.

• The mind is the attribute of man. When man is born, he comes into existence with only one weapon with him- The reasoning mind.

• I inherit nothing. I stand at the end of no tradition. I may, perhaps, stand at the beginning of one.

• Anything may be betrayed, anyone may be forgiven. But not those who lack the courage of their own greatness.

• I have come here to say that I do not recognize anyone's right to one minute of my life.... It had to be said. The world is perishing from an orgy of self-sacrificing.

• I am a man who does not exist for others.

• Show me your achievement - and the knowledge will give me courage for mine.

• Worry is a waste of emotional reserve.

• Only by accepting total compulsion can we achieve total freedom.