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.

It had to be said. The world is perishing from an orgy of self-sacrificing.

Who is John Galt?

Howard Roark laughed.

Kill reverence and you’ve killed the hero in man.

Whether you know the shape of a pebble or the structure of a solar system, the axioms remain the same: that it exists and that you know it.

No one’s happiness but my own is in my power to achieve or to destroy.

A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.

Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death.

Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice.