By Ayn Rand
Don’t fear God, fear Karma. God forgives, karma doesn’t.
Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness.
On the one hand, maybe I’ve remained infantile, while on the other I matured quickly, because at a young age I was very aware of suffering and fear.
Everything I learned I learned from the movies.
I have learnt how to live…how to be in the world and of the world, and not just to stand aside and watch.
I could never love her, the fear of losing would be too strong.
Boys learn too late that being the man, is not the same thing as being a man.
I have a vision of India: an India free of hunger and fear, an India free of illiteracy and want.
Patriotism, when it wants to make itself felt in the domain of learning, is a dirty fellow who should be thrown out of doors.
The fundament upon which all our knowledge and learning rests is the inexplicable.
I started flying because I had a fear of it early on. I figured if I learned to fly, I would understand better what was happening and started taking lessons in the late 1950’s, once I had made some money on tour.
A man can learn wisdom even from a foe.
The wise learn many things from their enemies.
That is what we do each time we see someone who falls in love with evil strategies, until we hurl him into misery, so he may learn to fear the Gods.
Poverty, the most fearful monster that ever drew breath.
Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war; and this lesson saves their children, their homes, and their properties.
Even from enemies much can be learned by the intelligent, More in fact than from our friends.
Never take counsel of your fears.
Our government is founded upon the intelligence of the people. I for one do not despair of the republic. I have great confidence in the virtue of the great majority of the people, and I cannot fear the result.
Fear not, the people may be deluded for a moment, but cannot be corrupted.
