There is nothing wrong in helping other people, if and when they are worthy of the help and you can afford to help them.

All the reasons which made the initiation of physical force evil, make the retaliatory use of physical force a moral imperative.

Any work is creative work if done by a thinking mind.

Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love.

I want to be prepared to claim the greatest virtue of all - that I was a man who made money

When man learns to understand and control his own behavior as well as he is learning to understand and control the behavior of crop plants and domestic animals, he may be justified in believing that he has become civilized.

John Galt is Prometheus who changed his mind. After centuries of being torn by vultures in payment for having brought to men the fire of the gods, he broke his chains—and he withdrew his fire—until the day when men withdraw their vultures.