I need no warrant for being, and no word of sanction upon my being. I am the warrant and the sanction. - Ayn Rand

I feel that others live up to me, if they want me.

Reason can be fought with reason. How are you going to fight the unreasonable? The trouble with you, my dear, and with most people, is that you don’t have sufficient respect for the senseless. The senseless is the major factor in our lives. You have no chance if it is your enemy.

There is no affirmation without the one who affirms. in this sense, everything to which you grant your love is yours