Just as man cant exist without his body, so no rights can exist without the right to translate ones rights into reality, to think, to work and keep the results, which means: the right of property. – Ayn Rand
Love is the expression of ones values, the greatest reward you can earn for the moral qualities you have achieved in your character and person, the emotional price paid by one man for the joy he receives from the virtues of another. – Ayn Rand
We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force. – Ayn Rand
Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the lepers bell of an approaching looter. – Ayn Rand
I had a 2-week courtship with a fellow student in the fiction workshop in Iowa and a 5-minute wedding in a lawyers office above the coffee shop where wed been having lunch that day. And so I sent a cable to my father saying, By the time you get this, Daddy, Ill already be Mrs. Blaise! – Bharati Mukherjee