““Howard Roark built a temple to the human spirit. He saw man as strong, proud, clean, wise and fearless. He saw man as a heroic being. And he built a temple to that. A temple is a place where man is to experience exaltation. He thought that exaltation comes from the consciousness of being guiltless, of seeing the truth and achieving it, of living up to one’s highest possibility, of knowing no shame and having no cause for shame, of being able to stand naked in full sunlight. He thought that exaltation means joy and that joy is man’s birthright. He tho...ught that a place built as a setting for man is a sacred place. That is what Howard Roark thought of man and of exaltation.””
![“[I]f it be any part of religion to believe that man was made by a good Being, it is more consistent with that faith to believe, that this Being gave all human faculties that they might be cultivated and unfolded, not rooted out and consumed, and that he takes delight in every nearer approach made…” quote by Robert Wright](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/1ce/robert-wright-8640_faith_i-f-it-be-any-part-of-religion-to-believ_1941899.jpg)
![“I think everything I do has Howard Roark [hero of The Fountainhead] in it, you know, as much as anything. The person I write for is Howard Roark.” quote by Neil Peart](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/a86/neil-peart-3563_fountainhead_i-think-everything-i-do-has-howard-roark_514394.jpg)
![“Howard Roark stood as a role model for me - as exactly the way I already was living. Even at that tender age [18] I already felt that. And it was intuitive or instinctive or inbred stubbornness or whatever; but I had already made those choices and suffered for them.” quote by Neil Peart](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/2f4/neil-peart-3563_age_howard-roark-stood-as-a-role-model-for-m_1249590.jpg)
