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• I swear -- by my life and my love for it -- that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.
  -- John Galt, in Ayn Rand's _Atlas Shrugged_...
• We never make assertions, Miss Taggart, that is the moral crime peculiar to our enemies.
  We do not tell, we show. We do not claim, we prove....
• I am, therefore I'll think. -- John Galt (Ayn Rand)
• The rotter who simpers that he sees no difference between a five-dollar bill and a whip deserves to learn the difference on his own back -- as, I think, he will.
  -- Francisco d'Anconia, in Ayn Rand's _Atlas Shrugged_...
• The rotter who simpers that he sees no difference between the power of the dollar and the power of the whip, ought to learn the difference on his own hide -- as, I think, he will.
  Until and unless you discover that money is the root of all good, you ask for your own destruction....
• Man has a single basic choice: to think or not, and that is the gauge of his virtue.
  Moral perfection is an unbreached rationality -- not the degree of your intelligence, but the full and relentless use of your mind, not the extent of your knowledge, but the acceptance of reason as an absolute....
• Man's ego is the fountainhead of the human achievement. -- Ayn Rand
• Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think that you are facing a contradiction, check your premises.
  You will find that one of them is wrong. -- Ayn Rand...
• There is a fundamental conviction which some people never acquire, some hold only in their youth, and a few hold to the end of their days-- the conviction that IDEAS MATTER.
  In one's youth that conviction is experienced as a self-evident absolute, and one is unable fully to believe that there are people who do not share it....