Your soul has a single basic function-the act of valuing.

As long as men are free to speak, a small, rational minority will always prevail over an irrational majority.

Hence the sterile, uninspiring futility of a great many theoretical discussions of ethics, and the resentment which many people feel towards such discussions: moral principles remain in their minds as floating abstractions, offering them a goal they cannot grasp and demanding that they reshape their souls in its image, thus leaving them with a burden of undefinable moral guilt.

The verdict you pronounce upon the source of your livelihood is the verdict you pronounce upon your life.

America's abundance was created not by public sacrifices to the common good, but by the productive genius of free men who pursued their own personal interests and the making of their own private fortunes. They did not starve the people to pay for America's industrialization. They gave the people better jobs, higher wages, and cheaper goods with every new machine they invented, with every scientific discovery or technological advance- and thus the whole country was moving forward and profiting, not suffering, every step of the way.

Rationalization is a process of not perceiving reality, but of attempting to make reality fit one’s emotions.

If you want to feel good, be rational.