Ayn Rand

Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values.

Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark, in the hopeless swamps of the approximate, the not-quite, the not-yet, the not-at-all.

The only thing that can save the world is the independent thinking of all individuals.

Every dictator is a mystic, and every mystic is a potential dictator.

When you are asked to sacrifice your values, you are asked to sacrifice your life.

The only good is the good of the individual.

The purpose of production is to create wealth, not to support parasites.

The only power that can save the world is the power of the individual mind.

Collectivism is the tribal premise of primordial savages.

The only way to fight evil is to be good.

Joy is the emotion of successful living.

The purpose of morality is to teach you to enjoy yourself and live.

The worst evil is not the one you know, but the one you don't suspect.

The state is the most dangerous enemy of man's rights. It is the legal, institutionalized, and organized aggressor against his property, his freedom, and his life.

The only thing that can stop an evil man is a good man.

To love is to value. Only a man of integrity can value.