"Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark,
in the hopeless swamps of the approximate, the not-quite,
the not-yet, the not-at-all.
Do not let the hero in your soul perish, in lonely frustration
of the life you deserved, but have never been able to reach.
Check your road and the nature of your battle.
The world you desired can be won.
It exists, it is real, it is possible, and it is yours!
But to win it requires total dedication and a total break with
the world of your past, with the doctrine that man is sacrificial
animal who exists for the pleasure of others.
Fight for the value of your person. Fight for the virtue of your pride.
Fight for the essence, which is man, for his sovereign rational mind.
Fight with the radiant certainty and the absolute rectitude of knowing that
yours is the morality of life and yours is the battle for any achievement,
any value, any grandeur, any goodness, any joy that has ever existed on this earth."
-rand
