If you ask me to name the proudest distinction of Americans, I would choose . . . the fact that they were the people who created the phrase "to make ….

Love should be treated like a business deal, but every business deal has its own terms and its own currency. And in love, the currency is virtue. You….

One can't love man without hating most of the creatures who pretend to bear his name..

Reason can be fought with reason. How are you going to fight the unreasonable? The trouble with you, my dear, and with most people, is that you don’t….

Many words have been granted me, and some are wise, and some are false, but only three are holy: "I will it!.

Value is that which one acts to gain and/or keep. Virtue is the act by which one aims and/or keeps it..

In proportion to the mental energy he spent, the man who creates a new invention receives but a small percentage of his value in terms of material pa….

Dictatorship nations are outlaws. Any free nation had the right to invade Nazi Germany and, today, has the right to invade Soviet Russia, Cuba, or an….

If you want to know the one reason that's taking me back, I'll tell you: I cannot bring myself to abandon to destruction all the greatness of the wor….

Man is a being with free will; therefore, each man is potentially good or evil, and it's up to him and only him (through his reasoning mind) to decid….

This miracle of me is mine to own and keep, and mine to guard, and mine to use, and mine to kneel before..

Toohey: "Mr. Roark, we're alone here. Why don't you tell me what you think of me? In any words you wish. No one will hear us." Roark: "But I don't th….

Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your ….

The doctrine that 'human rights' are superior to 'property rights' simply means that some human beings have the right to make property out of others..

All life is a purposeful struggle, and your only choice is the choice of a goal..

Do not let your fire go out..

No one's happiness but my own is in my power to achieve or to destroy..

every man is free to rise as far as he's able or willing, but the degree to which he thinks determines the degree to which he'll rise..

I agree that [marriage] should be treated like a business deal. But every business deal has to have its own terms and its own kind of currency..

I have no faith at all. I only hold convictions..

Romantic art is always stylized: the better the art, the cleaner and more attractive and intelligent the stylization..