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

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.

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.

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 don't think Harry cares about being forgiven, " Poppy said glumly."Of course he does. Men love to be forgiven. It makes us feel better about our inability to learn from our mistakes.

If he didn’t want to talk about it, I wouldn’t mention anything. I wanted him to open it up for me, not me intruding and asking questions to him.

Since he'd stepped out of medical school, all he'd ever done was fulfil the same three basic templates, again and again and again. The possibility of infinite variation had led only to convergence.

If you go deeper and deeper into your own heart, you'll be living in a world with less fear, isolation and loneliness.

I can think of a lot of words to describe Senator Kerry's position on Iraq; "consistent" is not one of them.

The way to elegancy of style is to employ your pen upon every errand; and the more trivial and dry it is, the more brains must be allowed for sauce.

Life is Quicker Than a Blink of an Eye

As we progress into the twenty-first century, anyone who considers themselves a realist will have to make the environment a top priority.

Feel good about yourself. You have been blessed and you might not have even realized it.