It's strange. There's your life. You begin it, feeling that it's something so precious and rare, so beautiful that it's like a sacred treasure. Now i….

To be the kind of writer you want to be, you must first be the kind of thinker you want to be..

Patience is always rewarded and romance is always round the corner!.

Dagny, we can never lose the things we live for. We may have to change their form at times, if we've made an error, but the purpose remains the same ….

It's not a question of who will allow me to do it, it's a question of who will stop me..

The symbol of all relationships among such men, the moral symbol of respect for human beings, is the trader. We, who live by values, not by loot, are….

Anyone who fights for the future, lives in it today..

The men who attempt to survive, not by means of reason, but by means of force, are attempting to survive by the method of animals..

That something happened to you is of no importance to anyone, not even to you. The important thing about you is what you choose to make happen - your….

I don't want to see you. I don't like you. I don't like your face. You look like an insufferable egotist. You're impertinent. You're too sure of your….

There's nothing of any importance in life-except how well you do your work..

Style is not an end in itself, it is only a means to an end - the means of telling a story..

The three values which men had held for centuries and which have now collapsed are: mysticism, collectivism, altruism. Mysticism — as a cultural powe….

Happiness is not to be achieved at the command of emotional whims..

The men of the press, who despised their own profession, did not know why they were enjoying it today. One of them, a young man with years of notorio….

One must never allow oneself to acquire an exaggerated sense of one's own importance. There's no necessity to burden oneself with absolutes.

The evasion of responsibility is the major cause of most peoples frustrations and defeats..

Peter Keating: "Do you always have to have a purpose? Do you always have to be so damn serious? Can't you ever do things without reason, just like ev….

I am older than you. Believe me, there is no other way to live on earth. Men are not open to truth or reason. They cannot be reached by a rational ar….

To achieve, you need thought.

What is kinder--to believe the best of people and burden them with a nobility beyond their endurance--or to see them as they are, and accept it becau….