Don't worry. They're all against me. But I have one advantage: they don't know what they want. I do.

Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love.

One can't love man without hating most of the creatures who pretend to bear his name.

If any part of your uncertainty, is a conflict between your heart and your mind - follow your mind.

To be the kind of writer you want to be, you must first be the kind of thinker you want to be.

If you write a whole line of zeroes, it's still — nothing.

Dagny, we can never lose the things we live for. We may have to change their form at times, if we've made an error, but the purpose remains the same and the forms are ours to make.