"Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swamps of the not-quite, the not-yet, and the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able to reach. The world you desire can be won. It exists.. it is real.. it is possible.. it's yours."
"Who is John Galt?"
"If you don't know, the thing to do is not to get scared, but to learn."
"Power-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind."
"Live and act within the limit of your knowledge and keep expanding it to the limit of your life."
"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. There was nothing else to dilute it, so that one could admire naked purpose and the ingenuity that had achieved it."