How do we keep our inner fire alive? Two things, at minimum, are needed: an ability to appreciate the positives in our life – and a commitment to action. Every day, it's important to ask and answer these questions: ‘What's good in my life?’ and ‘What needs to be done?

Force, governmental coercion, is the instrument by which the ethics of altruism - the belief that the individual exists to serve others - is translated into political reality.

I have to respect other's opinions even if I don't agree with them.

Freedom is still the most radical idea of all.

... there is an irrational, cultish tendency in many intellectual movements, and Objectivism, alas, is no exception. Ayn Rand's personal obsession with loyalty did little to discourage this trend.... Rand had often protested, 'Protect me from my followers!'

A commitment to lifelong learning is a natural expression of the practice of living consciously.

A depression is a large-scale decline in production and trade...there is nothing in the nature of a free-market economy to cause such an event.