Check your road and the nature of your battle. The world you desired can be won. It exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours. And now I see the face of god, and I raise this god over the earth, this god whom men have sought since men came into being, this god who will grant them joy and peace and pride. I made my fortune by being able to spot a certain kind of man.
All work is an act of philosophy.
No one's happiness but my own is in my power to achieve or to destroy. Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps down new roads armed with nothing but their own vision. The desire not to be anything is the desire not to be. Neither life nor happiness can be achieved by the pursuit of irrational whims. Just as a man is free to attempt to survive by any random means, as a parasite, a moocher or a looter, but not free to succeed at it beyond the range of the moment - so he is free to seek his happiness in any irrational fraud, any whim, any delusion, any mindless escape from reality, but not free to succeed at it beyond the range of the moment not to escape the consequences.