And no one rose to ask the question: Good?-by what standard?John Galt

Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.

We are born into this world unarmed - our mind is our only weapon.

Whenever a man denounces the mind, it is because his goal is of a nature the mind would not permit him to confess.

Live and act within the limit of your knowledge and keep expanding it to the limit of your life.

I started my life with a single absolute: that the world was mine to shape in the image of my highest values and never to be given up to a lesser standard, no matter how long or hard the struggle.

Power-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind.

I never found beauty in longing for the impossible and never found the possible to be beyond my reach.

Joy is the goal of existence, and joy is not to be stumbled upon, but to be achieved, and the act of treason is to let its vision drown in the swamp of the moment's torture.

The desire not to be anything is the desire not to be.

I think, therefore I'll think.

Procrastination is also a subtle act of corruption – it corrupts valuable time

[A]s military history reveals, a bad plan is often better than no plan, especially if the people on the other side think it’s a good plan.

Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.

All my stories are about the action of grace on a character who is not very willing to support it, but most people think of these stories as hard, hopeless and brutal.

I wanted to be in a band that gave bang for the buck. I wanted to be in the band who didn't look like a bunch of guys who, you know, should be in a library studying for their finals.

Live simply and virtuously, true to your nature, drawing no line between what is spiritual and what is not.

In financing growing companies, we always looked for human value that didn't appear on the balance sheet.

People fear they won’t get what they want.

The heart of a grass-roots campaign is the ownership.

You are a totally loved moral failure.