Money demands that you sell, not your weakness to men's stupidity, but your talent to their reason.

When I die, I hope to go to Heaven, whatever the Hell that is.

Truth is the recognition of reality; reason, man's only means of knowledge, is his only standard of truth.

The fight we are in here, make no mistake about it, is a fight of individualism versus collectivism.

If you agree with some tenets of Objectivism, but disagree with others, do not call yourself an Objectivist; give proper authorship credit for the parts you agree with

If you tell an amateur that his story is not good, he always declares indignantly: 'Oh, but it really happened just like this!' The writer who doesn't understand that this is beside the point is not a writer at all.

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