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

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.

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.

Whatever he was-that robot in the Garden of Eden, who existed without mind, without values, without labor, without love-he was not man.

I was learning that when you're with someone who is dying, you may need to celebrate the past, live the present, and mourn the future all at the same time.

Since I have introduced this term I had always a bad conscience. . . . I cannot help to feel it strongly and I am unable to believe that such an ugly thing should be realized in nature.

I didn't like the sound of people gasping at the mere mention of my name. It horrified me...

When someone gets a job, it better be clear what they did to get it.

My career is going better now than when I was younger. Now I get the part. Back then, I'd get the girl.

It is a law of governance that democracies have to spend themselves dizzy. Citizens of democracies can, after all, tell their government to give them things.

What I do say is that I can write verse, and that the writing of verse in strict form is the best possible training for writing good prose

Now is the time to make good use of time. Today is the day to begin a perfect day.

The body is not interested in anything you are interested in. And that is the battle that is going on all the time.

There is no black-and-white situation. It's all part of life. Highs, lows, middles.