Do not let the hero in your soul perish.

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

Those who grant sympathy to guilt, grant none to innocence.

Even if smog were a risk to human life, we must remember that life in nature, without technology, is wholesale death.

Man needs knowledge in order to survive, and only reason can achieve it; men who reject the responsibility of thought and reason, can exist only as parasites on the thinking of others.

Look around you and look at history. You will see the achievements of man’s mind. You will see man’s unlimited potentiality for greatness, and the faculty that makes it possible. You will see that man is not a helpless monster by nature, but he becomes one when he discards that faculty: his mind. And if you ask me, what is greatness? I will answer, it is the capacity to live by the three fundamental values of John Galt: reason, purpose, self-esteem.

But I don't think of you. - Howard Roark