“ I refuse to apologize for my ability—I refuse to apologize for my success—I refuse to apologize for my money. Ayn Rand
“ We are those who do not disconnect the values of their minds from the actions of their bodies, those who do not leave their values to empty dreams, but bring them into existence, those who give materi… Ayn Rand
“ All your life, you have heard yourself denounced, not for your faults, but for your greatest virtues. You have been hated, not for your mistakes, but for your achievements. You have been scorned for a… Ayn Rand
“ When one acts on pity against justice, it is the good whom one punishes for the sake of the evil; when one saves the guilty from suffering, it is the innocent whom one forces to suffer. Ayn Rand
“ You always play it open, don’t you?” he asked.“I’ve never noticed you doing otherwise.”“I thought I was the only one who could afford to. Ayn Rand
“ He saw for the first time that he had never known fear because, against any disaster, he had held the omnipotent cure of being able to act. Ayn Rand
“ ...he had never known fear because, against any disaster, he had held the omnipotent cure of being able to act. Ayn Rand
“ Are you saying,” he asked slowly, “that I rose in your estimation when you found that I wanted you?”“Of course.”“That’s not the reaction of most people to being wanted.”“It isn’t.”“Most people feel th… Ayn Rand
“ Throughout his life, whenever he became convinced that a course of action was right, the desire to follow it had come automatically. Ayn Rand