More quotes by Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

"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."
"Who is John Galt?"
"I never found beauty in longing for the impossible and never found the possible to be beyond my reach."
"We are born into this world unarmed - our mind is our only weapon."
"I take no pride in hopeless longing; I wouldn't hold a stillborn aspiration. I'd want to have it, to make it, to live it."