To hold an unchanging youth is to reach at the end, the vision with which one started.

Money is a tool of exchange, which can't exist unless there are goods produced and men able to produce them. Money is the material shape of the principle that men who wish to deal with one another must deal by trade and give value for value.

The sky is like a black sieve pierced by silver drops that tremble, ready to burst through.

There is no such dichotomy as 'human rights' versus 'property rights.' No human rights can exist without property rights.

John Galt is Prometheus who changed his mind. After centuries of being torn by vultures in payment for having brought to men the fire of the gods, he broke his chains—and he withdrew his fire—until the day when men withdraw their vultures.

Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think.

It is not advisable to venture unsolicited opinions. You should spare yourself the embarrassing discovery of their exact value to your listener.