In this world, either you're virtuous or you enjoy yourself. Not both, lady, not both.

Love is the expression of one's values, the greatest reward you can earn for the moral qualities you have achieved in your character and person, the emotional price paid by one man for the joy he receives from the virtues of another.

To preserve one's mind intact through a modern college education is a test of courage and endurance, but the battle is worth it and the stakes are the highest possible to man: the survival of reason.

Ferris: Are you going to be as impractical as that? Rearden: The evaluation of an action as practical, Dr. Ferris, depends on what it is that one wishes to practice. Ferris: Haven't you always placed your self-interest above all else? Rearden: That is what I am doing right now.

Men have been taught that it is a virtue to stand together. But the creator is the man who stands alone.

A 'mixed economy' is a society in the process of committing suicide.

The freedom of speech of private individuals includes the right to not agree, not to listen, and not to finance one's own antagonists.