Respect Starts With Ourselves.

How Do We Keep Our Inner Fire Alive? Two Things, At Minimum, Are Needed: An Ability To Appreciate The Positives In Our Life – And A Commitment To Action. Every Day, It's Important To Ask And Answer These Questions: ‘what's Good In My Life?’ And ‘what Needs To Be Done?

There Is No Value-judgment More Important To A Man--no Factor More Decisive In His Psychological Development And Motivation--than The Estimate He Passes On Himself.

... 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!'

It Would Be Hard To Name A More Certain Sign Of Poor Self-esteem Than The Need To Perceive Some Other Group As Inferior.

I Have To Respect Other's Opinions Even If I Don't Agree With Them.