When I die, I hope to go to Heaven, whatever the Hell that i... - Ayn Rand

"Man is an end in himself."

"An attempt to achieve the good by force is like an attempt to provide a man with a picture gallery at the price of cutting out his eyes."

"The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities."

"My philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute."

"Man is an end in himself."