In a word, man in London is not quite so good a creature as he is out of it.

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.

My only policy is to profess evil and do good.

Religion is a search for transcendence. But transcendence isn't necessarily sited in an external god, which can be a very unspiritual, unreligious concept.

[Julie Marie Pacino]is a great ballplayer, which I wanted to be. She did make four films by the time she was 14 but we're not going to talk about that.

Envy is one of the scorpions of the mind, often having little to do with the objective, external world.

When we start to feel anxious or depressed, instead of asking, "What do I need to get to be happy?" The question becomes, "What am I doing to disturb the inner peace that I already have?"

do you fix a wheel that isn't broken, or do you wait until the cart collapses?

The more attached we are to a vision of the future, the less present we are to what is actually trying to emerge here and now.

I've always had a passion for rap, and I might not be the greatest rapper, but I'm better than half of them out there.

[I made in army] all sorts of dumb things, but it did teach me a lot about the silk-screen process.