To know one's own desires, their meaning and their costs requires the highest human virtue: rationality..

The man of authentic self-confidence is the man who relies on the judgment of his own mind. Such a man is not malleable; he may be mistaken, he may b….

Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish….

The fortune my spirit is not to be blown into coins of brass and flung to the winds as alms for the poor of the spirit. I guard my treasures: my thou….

We are now moving towards complete collectivism or socialism, a system under which everybody is enslaved to everybody..

It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love..

The desire not to be anything is the desire not to be..

I stand here on the summit of the mountain. I lift my head and I spread my arms. This, my body and spirit, this is the end of the quest. I wished to ….

Creation comes before distribution -- or there will be nothing to distribute..

Don't rely on our knowledge of what's best for your future. We do know, but it can't be best until you know it..

Defiance, not obedience, is the American's answer to overbearing authority..

The only thing that matters my goal my reward my beginning my end is the work itself. My work done my way. A private personal selfish egotistical mot….

What is greatness? I will answer: it is the capacity to live by the three fundamental values of John Galt: reason, purpose, self-esteem..

Whether you know the shape of a pebble or the structure of a solar system, the anxioms remain the same: that it exists and that you know it..

Hank, this is great." "Yes." He said it simply, openly. There was no flattered pleasure in his voice, and no modesty. This, she knew, was a tribute t….

The [U.S.] Constitution is a limitation on the government, not on private individuals ... it does not prescribe the conduct of private individuals, o….

Creation comes before distribution - or there will be nothing to distribute. The need of the creator comes before the need of any possible beneficiar….

Every man builds his world in his own image; he has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice. If he abdicates his power, h….

Face a challenge and find joy in the capacity to meet it..

Truth is the recognition of reality; reason, man's only means of knowledge, is his only standard of truth..

No speech is ever considered, but only the speaker. It's so much easier to pass judgement on a man than on an idea..