You know, I think that only if one feels immensely important can one feel truly light.

I cannot stand Tolstoy, and reading him was the most boring literary duty I ever had to perform, his philosophy and his sense of life are not merely mistaken, but evil, and yet, from a purely literary viewpoint, on his own terms, I have to evaluate him as a good writer.

The right to life means that a man has the right to support his life by his own work (on any economic level, as high as his ability will carry him); it does not mean that others must provide him with the necessities of life.

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

In a free society, one does not have to deal with those who are irrational. One is free to avoid them.

Do it first and feel about it afterwards.' - Dagny Taggart

But why should you care what people will say? All you have to do is please yourself.