The pressure disappeared with the first word he put on paper. He thought--while his hand moved rapidly--what a power there was in words; later, for those who heard them, but first for the one who found them; a healing power, a solution, like the breaking of a barrier. He thought, perhaps the basic secret the scientists have not discovered, the first fount of life, is that which happens when a thought takes shape in words.
Ayn RandShe thought how strange it would be if she ever said 'Hello' to him. One did not greet oneself each morning.
Ayn Rand"Mediocrity" doesn't mean average intelligence, it means an average intelligence that resents and envies its betters.
Ayn RandCapitalism is a social system based on the recognition of individual rights, including property rights, in which all property is privately owned.
Ayn RandThe only proper purpose of a government is to protect man's rights, which means: to protect him from physical violence.
Ayn RandEconomic power is exercised by means of a positive, by offering men a reward, an incentive, a payment, a value; political power is exercised by means of a negative, by the threat of punishment, injury, imprisonment, destruction. The businessman's tool is values; the bureaucrat's tool is fear.
Ayn Rand