She did not know what it was about him that had always made her want to see him broken.

Pride is the recognition of the fact that you are your own highest value and, like all of man's values, it has to be earned.

He wanted nothing, for the time being, except to understand .... Without advice, assistance or plan, he began reading an incongruous assortment of books; he would find some passage which he could not understand in one book, and he would get another on that subject .... There was no order in his reading; but there was order in what remained of it in his mind.

Whoever claims the right to redistribute the wealth produced by others is claiming the right to treat human beings as chattel.

I came here to say that I do not recognize anyone's right to one minute of my life. Nor to any part of my energy. Nor to any achievement of mine. No matter who makes the claim, how large their number or how great their need. I wished to come here and say that I am a man who does not exist for others." - Howard Roark

Kira, the highest thing in man is not his god. It's that in him which knows the reverence due a god. And you, Kira, are my highest reverence.

Capitalism is a social system based on the recognition of individual rights, including property rights, in which all property is privately owned.