My dear fellow, who will let you?" "That's not the point. The point is, who will stop me?
Self respect is something that can't be killed. The worst thing is to kill a man's pretense at it.
In all proper relationships there is no sacrifice of anyone to anyone.
The man who attempts to live for others is a dependent. He is a parasite in motive and makes parasites of those he serves.
Your soul has a single basic function-the act of valuing.
Toohey: "Mr. Roark, we're alone here. Why don't you tell me what you think of me? In any words you wish. No one will hear us." Roark: "But I don't think of you.
"You were not born to be a second-hander." Howard Roark to Gail Wynand in "The Fountainhead"
I am a man who does not exist for others.
You have been the one encounter in my life that can never be repeated
Self-sacrifice? But it is precisely the self that cannot and must not be sacrificed.