I like cigarettes, Miss Taggart. I like to think of fire held in a man's hand. Fire, a dangerous force, tamed at his fingertips. I often wonder about the hours when a man sits alone, watching the smok...
I covet no man's soul, nor is my soul theirs to covet.
How do you always manage to decide?How can you let others decide for you?
His smile had an attractive quality, the smile of a man of the world who used it, not to cover his words, but to stress the audacity of expressing a sincere emotion.
He looked at the granite. To be cut, he thought, and made into walls. He looked at a tree. To be split and made into rafters. He looked at a streak of rust on the stone and thought of iron ore under t...
He has once built his fortune, starting out with empty hands; now he had to rebuild his life, starting out with an empty spirit
Fight for the value of your person. Fight for the virtue of your pride. Fight for the essence of that which is man: for his sovereign rational mind. Fight with the radiant certainty and the absolute r...
Everything that isn't permitted by The Law is forbidden.
But those who were young had no thought left for spring and those who still thought were not young any longer.
But there are people who'll try to hurt you through the good they see in you--knowing that it's the good, needing it and punishing you for it. Don't let it break you when you discover that.
But I don't think of you.(Howard Roark)
Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artists metaphysical value judgments.
And my happiness needs no higher aim to vindicate it. My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own purpose...I am a man. this miracle of me is mine to own...
A truly selfish man cannot be affected by the approval of others. He doesn’t need it.
If I found a job, a project, an idea or a person I wanted-I'd have to depend on the whole world. Everything has strings leading to everything else. We're all so tied together. We're all in a net, the...
An inventor is a man who asks 'Why?' of the universe and lets nothing stand between the answer and his mind.
In the name of the best within you, do not sacrifice this world to those who are at its worst. In the name of the values that keep you alive, do not let your vision of people be distorted by the ugly,...
Your eyes are as a flame, but our brothers have neither hope nor fire. Your mouth is cut of granite, but our brothers are soft and humble. Your head is high, but our brothers cringe. You walk, but our...
Worry is a waste of emotional reserve.
What whip lashed them to their knees in shame and submission? The worship of the word We.