A trader does not squander his body as fodder or his soul as alms.

I want every fan of Rand to hear [Polaha] say the classic Galt phrase: “I swear by my life and my love of it that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.

All property and all forms of wealth are produced by man's mind and labor.

Government power is always abused by seizing and perverting the law. And with few exceptions, government always determines what is law.

Evil is impotent and has no power but that which we let it extort from us.

There can be no causeless love or any sort of causeless emotion. An emotion is a response to a fact of reality, an estimate dictated by your standards.

A trader is a man who earns what he gets and does not give or take the undeserved.

I seek no values by means of evil, nor do I surrender my values to evil.

Man's mind is his basic tool of survival. Life is given to him, survival is not.

No matter how vast your knowledge or how modest, it is your own mind that has to acquire it.

As there can be no causeless wealth, so there can be no causeless love or any sort of causeless emotion.

They say well begun half done

Always write as if you will never have the blessed chance to write again, so this has to be the best thing you've ever done. Do that, and it will be.

With certainty, I can predict that there will never be a cure to cancer. The only hope for any of us is to concentrate on cause and prevent the misery.

Writing is learning to say nothing, more cleverly each day.

He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers.

I'm just kind of lazy and messed up and self-managed - self-mismanaged.

Playing with Queen was the biggest moment of my career. It was like living a childhood fantasy.

Judge Thomas was a man who had used the system to get where he wanted to be, but then felt that everyone else should pull themselves up by their own bootstraps.

I'll watch any show on the History Channel.

Imagine? Yeah I can imagine John Lennon being dead.