“ Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values. 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. There is no es… Ayn Rand
“ Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps down new roads armed with nothing but their own vision. Their goals differed, but they all had this in common: that the step was first, the… Ayn Rand
“ The source of man's rights is not divine law or a congressional law, but the law of identity. A is A ___ and man is man. Rights are conditions of existence required by man's nature for his proper surv… Ayn Rand
“ The ' pleasure' of being drunk is obviously the pleasure of escaping from the responsibility of Consciousness. Ayn Rand
“ She watched the tunnels as they flowed past: bare walls of concrete, a net of pipes and wires, a web of rails that went off into black holes where green and red lights hung as distant drops of color.… Ayn Rand
“ Serenity comes from the ability to say Yes to existence. Courage comes from the ability to say No to the wrong choices made by others. Ayn Rand
“ Man has no automatic code of survival. His particular distinction from all other living species is the necessity to act in the face of alternatives by means of volitional choice. He has no automatic k… Ayn Rand
“ If this is vise I want no virtue....I know what happiness is possible to me on earth. And my happiness needs no higher aim to vindicate it. My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It… Ayn Rand
“ For the coming of that day shall I fight, I and my sons and my chosen friends. For the freedom of Man. For his rights. For his life. For his honor. Ayn Rand
“ Every man is free to rise as far as he's able or willing but the degree to which he thinks determines the degree to which he'll rise. Ayn Rand
“ The skyline of New York is a monument of a splendour that no pyramids or palaces will ever equal or approach. Ayn Rand
“ You are so lost to your higher self that you would resent me for my achievements, rather than celebrate them with me, sexually? Ayn Rand
“ I can accept anything, except what seems to be the easiest for most people: the half-way, the almost, the just-about, the in-between. Ayn Rand
“ I want you, Hank. I'm much more of an animal than you think. I wanted you from the first moment I saw you - and the only thing I'm ashamed of is that I did not know it. I did not know why, for two yea… Ayn Rand
“ Money demands that you sell, not your weakness to men's stupidity, but your talent to their reason. Ayn Rand
