Ocupation: Novelist
Life: February 2, 1905 - March 6, 1982
Birthday: February 2
Death: March 6
My pride and my power of vision were all that I owned when I started - and whatever I achieved, was achieved by means of them. Both are greater now. Now I have the knowledge of the superlative value I had missed: of my right to be proud of my vision. The rest is mine to reach.
- Ayn Rand
source: Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.657, Hamilton Books
topic: Knowledge, Mean, Pride, Superlatives