Quotes from Barbara Branden

A moral person is one who constantly exercises, and acts on, his best rational judgment.

There is never any valid reason for not being in full mental focus.

For the first time in his life, he was receiving the priceless gift of a woman's unconditional love and acceptance. It contradicted all that he knew about love, all that he had taught others. And he found himself needing it like a drowning man needs air to breathe and solid ground under his feet.

As far as the functioning of your mind is concerned, it doesn't matter what you feel. It doesn't matter to anyone else, and it matters least of all to yourself.

For Ayn had built up a comprehensive systematic philosophy, which she calls Objectivism, and which, once you accept its first premises, is the most closely reasoned, rigorously logical and consistently interlocking world view and explanation since the great synthesis of Thomas Aquinas.

My philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute.

A plot-structure is a series of integrated, logically connected events, moved by a central purpose, leading to the resolution of a climax.

Metaphysics—objective reality; Epistemology—reason; Ethics—self-interest; Politics—capitalism.