That which exists possesses identity; he could keep it out of existence by refusing to identify it.
Ayn RandAny work is creative work if done by a thinking mind.
Ayn RandWithin the extent of your knowledge, you are right.
Ayn RandHappiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's value.
Ayn RandAsk yourself whether the dream of heaven and greatness should be left waiting for us in our graves-or whether it should be ours here and now and on this earth.
Ayn RandYou'd let the whole world perish rather than soil that immaculate self of yours with a single spot of which you'd have to be ashamed.
Ayn Randwhose steps were a restless substitute for flight.
Ayn RandPeople, he thought, were as hungry for a sight of joy as he had always been--for a moment's relief from that gray load of suffering which seemed so inexplicable and unnecessary. He had never been able to understand why men should be unhappy.
Ayn RandTags: happiness pain joy suffering happy relief absence-of-suffering
Fransisco, you're some kind of very high nobility, aren't you?" He answered, "Not yet. The reason my family has lasted for such a long time is that none of us has ever been permitted to think he is born a d'Anconia. We are expected to become one.
Ayn RandTags: talent meritocracy nobility ability aristocracy birthright
It's strange. There's your life. You begin it, feeling that it's something so precious and rare, so beautiful that it's like a sacred treasure. Now it's over, and it doesn't make any difference to anyone, and it isn't that they are indifferent, it's just that they don't know, they don't know what it means, that treasure of mine, and there's something about it that they should understand. I don't understand it myself, but there's something that should be understood by all of us. Only what is it? What?
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