Ayn Rand

"Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death."

"Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice."

"God... a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man's power to conceive."

"If any civilization is to survive, it is the morality of altruism that men have to reject."

"Individual rights are the means of subordinating society to moral law."

"Money demands that you sell, not your weakness to men's stupidity, but your talent to their reason."

"Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver."

"Money is the barometer of a society's virtue."

"Potentially, a government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims."

"Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone."

"Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper's bell of an approaching looter."

"So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of all money?"

"The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it."

"Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps, down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision."

"To achieve, you need thought. You have to know what you are doing and that's real power."

"To say 'I love you' one must first be able to say the 'I.'"

"When I die, I hope to go to Heaven, whatever the Hell that is."

"When man learns to understand and control his own behavior as well as he is learning to understand and control the behavior of crop plants and domestic animals, he may be justified in believing that he has become civilized."