The worse the coming future, the more it should motivate its opponents.

The more you learn, if you learn it properly, the more clear you become and the more you know.

Objectivism advocates reason as man's sole means of knowledge, and therefore, for the reasons I have already given, it is atheist. It denies any supernatural dimension presented as a contradiction of nature, of existence. This applies not only to God, but also to every variant of the supernatural ever advocated or to be advocated. In other words, we accept reality, and that's all.

Each man must reach his own verdict, by weighing all the relevant evidence.

To send a child to rot in the prison of Cuba for the alleged sake of his own well-being is criminal hypocrisy.

Ayn Rand held that art is a 're-creation of reality according to an artist's metaphysical value-judgements.' By its nature, therefore, a novel (like a statue or a symphony) does not require or tolerate an explanatory preface; it is a self-contained universe, aloof from commentary, beckoning the reader to enter, perceive, respond.

To save the world is the simplest thing in the world. All one has to do is think.