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 attack on "selfishness" is an attack on man's self-esteem; to surrender one, is to surrender the other.

I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.

Why no. I’m too conceited. If you want to call it that. I don’t make comparisons. I never think of myself in relation to anyone else. I just refuse to measure myself as part of anything. I’m an utter egotist.

Every form of happiness is private. Our greatest moments are personal, self-motivated, not to be touched".

Did it ever occur to you, that there is no conflict of interests among men, neither in business nor in trade nor in their most personal desires - if they omit the irrational from their view of the possible and destruction from their view of the practical?

One loses everything when one loses one's sense of humor.