Carl

“There is no necessity for pain-why, then, is the worst pain reserved for those who will not accept its necessity?”
― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

“Where your talents and the needs of the world cross, there lies your vocation.”
― Aristotle

“To count upon his virtue and use it as an instrument of torture, to practice blackmail with the victim's generosity as sole means of extortion, to accept the gift of a man's good will and turn it into a tool for the giver's destruction.”
― Ayn Rand

“Roark smiled, "Gail, if this boat were sinking, I'd give my life to save you. Not because it's any kind of duty. Only because I like you, for reasons and standards of my own. I could die for you. But I couldn't and wouldn't live for you.”
― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead