Ayn Rand

Just as man can't exist without his body, so no rights can exist without the right to translate one's rights into reality, to think, to work and keep the results, which means: the right of property.

Individual rights are the means of subordinating society to moral law.

To achieve, you need thought. You have to know what you are doing and that's real power.

Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice.

A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.

Money is the barometer of a society's virtue.

So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of all money?

Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.

Money demands that you sell, not your weakness to men's stupidity, but your talent to their reason.

Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps, down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision.

If any civilization is to survive, it is the morality of altruism that men have to reject.

The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it.

Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.

Love is the expression of one's values, the greatest reward you can earn for the moral qualities you have achieved in your character and person, the emotional price paid by one man for the joy he receives from the virtues of another.

To say 'I love you' one must first be able to say the 'I.'

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.

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.

When man learns to understand and control his own behavior as well as he is learning to understand and control the behavior of crop plants and domestic animals, he may be justified in believing that he has become civilized.

When I die, I hope to go to Heaven, whatever the Hell that is.

Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.