No One Is Coming To Save You.

... There Is An Irrational, Cultish Tendency In Many Intellectual Movements, And Objectivism, Alas, Is No Exception. Ayn Rand's Personal Obsession With Loyalty Did Little To Discourage This Trend.... Rand Had Often Protested, 'protect Me From My Followers!'

A Depression Is A Large-scale Decline In Production And Trade...there Is Nothing In The Nature Of A Free-market Economy To Cause Such An Event.

The Greatest Barrier To Achievement And Success Is Not Lack Of Talent Or Ability But Rather The Feeling That Achievement And Success, Above A Certain Level, Are Outside Our Self-concept-our Image Of Who We Are And What Is Appropriate To Us.

Of All The Judgments You Make In Life, None Is As Important As The One You Make About Yourself. The Difference Between Low Self-esteem And High Self-esteem Is The Difference Between Passivity And Action, Between Failure And Success.

We Are Anxious When There Is A Dissonance Between Our "knowledge" And The Perceivable Facts. Since Our "knowledge" Is Not To Be Doubted Or Questioned, It Is The Facts That Have To Be Altered.