Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artist's individual value-judgments. - Ayn Rand

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 recognizes the supremacy of reason and applies it consistently, all the rest follows.

It is not good to feel too much joy, nor to be glad that our body lives. For we matter not and it must not matter to us whether we live or die, which is to be as our brothers will it. But we, Equality 7-2521, are glad to be living. If this is a vice, then we wish no virtue.

The highest thing in a man is not his god. It's that in him which knows the reverence due a god. You are my highest reverence.