I seek no values by means of evil, nor do I surrender my values to evil.

I want every fan of Rand to hear [Polaha] say the classic Galt phrase: “I swear by my life and my love of it that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.

All property and all forms of wealth are produced by man's mind and labor.

Government power is always abused by seizing and perverting the law. And with few exceptions, government always determines what is law.

Evil is impotent and has no power but that which we let it extort from us.

There can be no causeless love or any sort of causeless emotion. An emotion is a response to a fact of reality, an estimate dictated by your standards.

A trader is a man who earns what he gets and does not give or take the undeserved.

Man's mind is his basic tool of survival. Life is given to him, survival is not.

No matter how vast your knowledge or how modest, it is your own mind that has to acquire it.

As there can be no causeless wealth, so there can be no causeless love or any sort of causeless emotion.

Whatever he was-that robot in the Garden of Eden, who existed without mind, without values, without labor, without love-he was not man.

The gods are fond of the cryptic and dislike the evident.

From today onwards, I am going to strive for the greatest purity of soul, that the rays of God's grace may be reflected in all their brilliance.

There are unlimited possibilities in life.

Knowing and doing are two separate things, and don't always sync up in life.

Success is never found. Failure is never fatal. Courage is the only thing.

The artist is the medium between his fantasies and the rest of the world.

When we hear our inner voice and follow it, we can walk our own path.

Several times we were stranded in strange places without any money and with our credit cards cancelled - trapped in a hotel that we couldn't check out of because we had no money to check out.

True friends say good things behind your back and bad things to your face.

Don't try to make comparisons between your own pictures. Forget what you have done and think only of making the best of what you are doing.