"I started my life with a single absolute: that the world was mine to shape in the image of my highest values and never to be given up to a lesser standard, no matter how long or hard the struggle."
"Power-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind."
"Who is John Galt?"
"Let me give you a tip on a clue to men's characters: the man who damns money has obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it has earned it."
"I never found beauty in longing for the impossible and never found the possible to be beyond my reach."
"Live and act within the limit of your knowledge and keep expanding it to the limit of your life."