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.

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.

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.

The third year at a school for any head coach is the most important year for the program they are attempting to develop.

Will Smith is a funny person, a very likable person, but at the same time he can be serious and really handle his business. I'll stay away from talking about his rapping abilities, though.

Ninety percent of all music is always crap, and when too many people decide they're going to have guitar bands, then ninety percent of them are going to be crap. It's just a given law.

Westward the course of empire takes its way; The four first acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day: Time's noblest offspring is the last.

[Using humor to explore serious issues] disarms people. It's a way in. It's gentle, but at the same time it's subversive, and I like that duality.

Khaddar has the greatest organizing power in it because it has itself to be organized and because it affects all India.

As information becomes our environment, it becomes mandatory to program the environment itself as a work of art.

My mother and I never got along, not even when I was a child.

It is no use to preach to [children] if you do not act decently yourself.

The hardest thing was learning to write. I was 13, and the only writing I had done was for Social Studies. It consisted of copying passages right out of the encyclopedia