Ayn Rand

Do it first and feel about it afterwards.

Guilt is a rope that wears thin.

Get the hell out of my way

Whatever road I take, the guiding star is within me the guiding star and the loadstone which point the way. They point in but one direction. They point to me.

I need no warrant for being, and no word of sanction upon my being. I am the warrant and the sanction.

I know not if this earth on which I stand is the core of the universe or if it is but a speck of dust lost in eternity. I know not and I care not. For I know what happiness is possible to me on earth.

The secrets of this earth are not for all men to see, but only for those who will seek them.

A building has integrity just like a man. And just as seldom.

The question isn't who is going to let me it's who is going to stop me.

God... a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man's power to conceive.

The man who lets a leader prescribe his course is a wreck being towed to the scrap heap.

We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force.

Art is too serious to be taken seriously.

Thanksgiving is a typically American holiday... The lavish meal is a symbol of the fact that abundant consumption is the result and reward of production.

To achieve, you need thought. You have to know what you are doing and that's real power.

The uncontested absurdities of today are the accepted slogans of tomorrow. They come to be accepted by degrees, by dint of constant pressure on one side and constant retreat on the other - until one day when they are suddenly declared to be the country's official ideology.

The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it.

Evil requires the sanction of the victim.

Money is the barometer of a society's virtue.

I don't build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build.

The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity.

And what is the state but a servant and a convenience for a large number of people, just like the electric light and the plumbing system And wouldn't it be preposterous to claim that men must exist for their plumbing, not the plumbing for the men.

There can be no such thing, in law or in morality, as actions to an individual, but permitted to a mob.

So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of all money

The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.