Quotes from Ayn Rand

Their eyes were dark and hard and glowing, with no fear in them, no kindness and no guilt.

Keating stood still, because he understood for the first time what it was that artists spoke about when they spoke of beauty.

Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.

When I die, I hope to go to Heaven, whatever the Hell that is.

The desire not to be anything is the desire not to be.

A 'whim' is a desire experienced by a person who does not know and does not care to discover its cause.

To fear to face an issue is to believe that the worst is true.

The action required to sustain human life is primarily intellectual: everything man needs has to be discovered by his mind and produced by his effort.

The question isn't who's going to let me; it's who's going to stop me.

Man is a being with free will; therefore, each man is potentially good or evil, and it's up to him and only him (through his reasoning mind) to decide which he wants to be.

The purpose of the law is not to prevent a future offense, but to punish the one actually committed.

Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love.