There’s nothing as significant as a human face. Nor as eloquent. We can never really know another person, except by our first glance at him. Because, in that glance, we know everything. Even though we’re not always wise enough to unravel the knowledge.

In this world, either you're virtuous or you enjoy yourself. Not both, lady, not both.

Art is the indispensable medium for the communication of a moral ideal.

My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own purpose.

We are all brothers under the skin - and I, for one, would be willing to skin humanity to prove it.

When she had gone upstairs, he walked to a window and stood looking up at the sky. His head thrown back, he felt the pull of his throat muscles and he wondered whether the peculiar solemnity of looking at the sky comes, not from what one contemplates, but from that uplift of one's head.

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