Ayn Rand
A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.
Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.
To say I love you one must know first how to say the I.
Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice.
The question isn't 'who is going to let me'; it's 'who is going to stop me'.
The worst guilt is to accept an unearned guilt.
The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.
So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of all money?
The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.
The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.
Potentially, a government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims.
There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist.
Upper classes are a nation's past, the middle class its future.
Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death.
Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper's bell of an approaching looter.
Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone.
I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.
Rights are not a matter of numbers - and there can be no such thing, in law or in morality, as actions forbidden to an individual, but permitted to a mob.
To achieve, you need thought. You have to know what you are doing and that's real power.
Ask yourself whether the dream of heaven and greatness should be waiting for us in our graves - or whether it should be ours here and now and on this earth.
