Ayn Rand

The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.

Wealth is the product of a man’s ability to think.

If it were true that men could achieve their good by means of turning some men into sacrificial animals, and … if I were asked to serve the interests of society apart from, above and against my own I would refuse….I would fight in the full confidence of the justice of my battle and of a living being’s right to exist.

You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.

Life is like improvised jazz. We cannot regulate all the variables. We must play it with panache and flair as best we can.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

The problem is that for women, the average time is just over 14 minutes… men are left with about 12 minutes during which time they need to think of something to do!

How many legs does a dog have, if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn’t make it a leg.

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.

Life is not about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they’ll have good voice boxes in case there’s ever anything really meaningful to say.

Anger is nothing more than an outward expression of hurt, fear and frustration.

Don’t be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality. If you can dream it, you can make it so.

Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.

It is difference of opinion that makes horse races.

At this very moment, you may be saying to yourself that you have any number of admirable qualities. You are a loyal friend, a caring person, someone who is smart, dependable, fun to be around. That’s wonderful, and I’m happy for you, but let me ask you this: are you being any of those things to yourself?

If you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you’ve always got.

I mean, if you degrade someone, you isolate them, you control them, you call them names, you demean them. That’s a horrible existence for people.