"You were not born to be a second-hander." Howard Roark to Gail Wynand in "The Fountainhead"

Whoever defends his own rights defends the rights of all.

She watched the prairies the rivers, the towns slipping past at an untouchable distance below - and she noted that the sense of detachment one feels when looking at the earth from a plane was the same sense she felt when looking at people: only her distance from people seemed longer. - Dagny Taggart

In a free society, one does not have to deal with those who are irrational. One is free to avoid them.

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

Mysticism requires the notion of the unknowable, which is revealed to some and withheld from others; this divides men into those who feel guilt and those who cash in on it.

She knew that she could not have reached this white serenity except as the sum of all the colors, of all the violence she had known.