Lee

“Compromise now, because you'll have to later, anyway, only then you'll have gone through things you'll wish you hadn't.”
― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens

“Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“...learn this lesson, that to be self-contented is to be vile and ignorant, and that to aspire is better than to be blindly and impotently happy..”
― Edwin A. Abbott, Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions