Man is the only living species that has the power to act as his own destroyer - and that is the way he has acted through most of his history.

For they have nothing to fight me with, save the brute force of their numbers. I have my mind.

Thanksgiving is a typically American holiday...The lavish meal is a symbol of the fact that abundant consumption is the result and reward of production.

A “collective” mind does not exist. It is merely the sum of endless numbers of individual minds. If we have an endless number of individual minds who are weak, meek, submissive and impotent – who renounce their creative supremacy for the sake of the “whole” and accept humbly that the “whole’s” verdict – we don’t get a collective super-brain. We get only the weak, meek, submissive and impotent collective mind.

Thinking men cannot be ruled; ambitious men do not stagnate.

Roark smiled, "Gail, if this boat were sinking, I'd give my life to save you. Not because it's any kind of duty. Only because I like you, for reasons and standards of my own. I could die for you. But I couldn't and wouldn't live for you.

Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper's bell of an approaching looter.