An engineer can do for a dollar what any fool can do for two.

Great triumphs of engineering genius—the locomotive, the truss bridge, the steel rail— ... are rather invention than engineering proper.

Civilization is a myth. That is the truth this world has taught us. We have not risen above our baser instincts... That is what always has and always will drive us.

To change yourself, never forget to challenge yourself.

My attitude towards drawing is not necessarily about drawing. It's about making the best kind of image I can make, it's about talking as clearly as I can.

Some people are born to make life pretty, and others to grumble that it is not pretty enough.

Communism deprives no man of the ability to appropriate the fruits of his labour. The only thing it deprives him of is the ability to enslave others by means of such appropriations.

Workers insist that they are not disgruntled. They are very gruntled.

My worst day is still a really good day. I complain, but I catch myself and count my blessings. I am truly blessed.

With confidence, he open the door of life presented to him.

I read all of Ayn Rand's novels when I was 17.