No matter how vast your knowledge or how modest, it is your own mind that has to acquire 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.

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.

Green light, STOP - if you want to see where you are taking the most risk, look where you are making the most money.

We are all tempted, Mma. We are all tempted when it comes to cake.

The Book of Proverbs deals very hard blows against sluggards, and Christian ministers do well frequently to denounce the great sin of idleness, which is the mother of a huge family of sins.

I come from a different generation from my Dad.

What I said about John was that he liberated me from my anxieties about writing in a correct, acceptable way.

The world is full of happiness, and plenty to go round, if you are only willing to take the kind that comes your way.

There is a mistaken idea, ancient but still with us, that an overdose of anything from fornication to hot chocolate will teach restraint by the very results of its abuse.

I love a good Slash guitar riff. It's sexy!

Happiness reveals itself when we are at peace with ourselves.

The novel's not organized like a screenplay. If you shot the novel, you'd have a twelve-hour movie.