Ayn Rand — "The truly and the morally evil is the man who always acts for the sake of others…"

"I am not primarily an advocate of capitalism, but of egoism; and I am not primarily an advocate of egoism, but of reason. If one observes the actual requirements of man’s survival and prosperity, one …"

"An honest man is one who knows that he can’t consume more than he has produced."

"The small minority of men who are able to conceive of a new idea are the only men who discover truths. The rest are but the echoes of other men's thoughts."

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

"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."