“The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.”
“A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.”
“I swear by my life and my love of it that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.”
“You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.”
“Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life.”
“The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity.”
“When I die, I hope to go to heaven—whatever the hell that is.”
“To say ‘I love you,’ one must first be able to say the ‘I.'”
“Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one’s values.”
“The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.”
“Freedom (n.): To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.”
“The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see.”
“The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.”
“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.”
“If it’s worth doing, it’s worth overdoing.”
“Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.”
“I am. I think. I will.”
“In the name of the best within you, do not sacrifice this world to those who are its worst.”
“The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it.”
“Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice.”
“The man who lets a leader prescribe his course is a wreck being towed to the scrap heap.”
“I could die for you. But I couldn’t, and wouldn’t, live for you.”
“Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins.”
“The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum.”
“Never think of pain or danger or enemies a moment longer than is necessary to fight them.”
“There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist.”
“The most depraved type of human being is the man without a purpose.”
“The man who does not value himself cannot value anything or anyone.”
“When men abandon reason, physical force becomes their only means of dealing with one another.”
“Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.”
“The purpose of morality is to teach you not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.”
“Happiness is not to be achieved at the command of emotional whims.”
“The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it.”
“Pity for the guilty is treason to the innocent.”
“Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.”
“Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think you are facing a contradiction, check your premises.”
“Ask yourself whether the dream of heaven and greatness should be waiting for us in our graves—or whether it should be ours here and now and on this earth.”
“To achieve, you need thought. You have to know what you are doing and that’s real power.”
“There is no such thing as a collective brain.”
“Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark.”
“Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps, down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision.”
“No one’s happiness but my own is in my power to achieve or to destroy.”
“There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil.”
“Man’s basic vice, the source of all his evils, is the act of unfocusing his mind.”
“If you don’t know, the thing to do is not to get scared, but to learn.”
“Wealth is the product of man’s capacity to think.”
“To sell your soul is the easiest thing in the world. That’s what everybody does every hour of his life.”
“Money demands that you sell, not your weakness to men’s stupidity, but your talent to their reason.”
“I think. I am. I will.”
“The man who fears to be alone will never be anything but lonely.”
“Productiveness is your acceptance of morality.”
“Self-respect is the root of discipline.”
“What is greatness? It is the capacity to live by the three fundamental values of reason, purpose, and self-esteem.”
“Love is our response to our highest values.”
“Do not ever say that the desire to ‘do good’ by force is a good motive.”
“The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.”
“I refuse to accept as guilt the fact of my own existence.”
“The evil of the world is made possible by nothing but the sanction you give it.”
“Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one’s values.”
“All work is an act of philosophy.”
“If you don’t know, the thing to do is not to get scared, but to learn.”
“The man who does not value himself cannot value anything or anyone.”
“Love is the expression of one’s values.”
“What is man? He’s just a collection of chemicals with delusions of grandeur.”
“I am not primarily an advocate of capitalism, but of egoism.”
“The world you desire can be won. It exists. It is real. It is possible. It is yours.”
“The most selfish of all things is the independent mind that recognizes no authority higher than its own.”
“The only moral purpose of a government is to protect man’s rights.”
“In the name of the best within you, do not sacrifice this world to those who are its worst.”