She thought: at this moment, the glass stem between his fingers feels just like the one between mine. We have this much in common.

Capitalism is a social system based on the recognition of individual rights, including property rights, in which all property is privately owned.

The fact that a man has no claim on others ... does not preclude or prohibit good will among men and does not make it immoral to offer or to accept voluntary, non-sacrificial assistance.

But neither life nor happiness can be achieved by the pursuit of irrational whims. Just as man is free to attempt to survive in any random manner, but will perish unless he lives as his nature requires, so he is free to seek his happiness in any mindless fraud, but the torture of frustration is all he will find, unless he seeks the happiness proper to man. The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.

Self respect is something that can't be killed. The worst thing is to kill a man's pretense at it.

Man is the only living species that has the power to act as his own destroyer - and that is the way he has acted through most of his history.

Laissez-faire capitalism is the only social system based on the recognition of individual rights and, therefore, the only system that bans force from social relationships.