It does not matter that only a few in each generation will grasp and achieve the full reality of man's proper stature-and the rest will betray it. It is those few that move the world and give life its meaning-and it is those few that I have always sought to address. The rest are no concern of mine; it is not me or "The Fountainhead" that they will betray: it is their own souls.

The creator's concern is the conquest of nature. The parasite's concern is the conquest of men.

Don't bother to examine a folly-ask yourself only what it accomplishes.

Happiness is not something you have in your hands; it's something you carry in your heart. Happiness is one thing that multiplies by division. Happiness is that peculiar sensation you acquire when you are too busy to be miserable. Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.

When you force a man to act against his own choice and judgment, it's his thinking that you want him to suspend.

There were things in my past which I have not liked. But all the things of which I was proud will remain.

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.