Quotes from Ayn Rand

Ethics is a code of values which guide our choices and actions and determine the purpose and course of our lives.

I refuse to apologize for my ability -- I refuse to apologize for my success -- I refuse to apologize for my money. If this is evil, make the most of it.

Life is the reward of virtue. And happiness is the goal and reward of life.

Life is a value to be bought and thinking is the only coin noble enough to buy it.

I think it's a sin to sit down and let your life go without making a try for it.

Neither life nor happiness can be achieved by the pursuit of irrational whims.

People create their own questions because they are afraid to look straight. All you have to do is look straight and see the road, and when you see it, don't sit looking at it- walk.

Mediocrity doesn't mean average intelligence, it means an average intelligence that resents and envies its betters.

Inflation is not caused by the actions of private citizens, but by the government: by an artificial expansion of the money supply required to support deficit spending. No private embezzlers or bank robbers in history have ever plundered peoples savings on a scale comparable to the plunder perpetrated by the fiscal policies of statist governments.

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

What is a demanding pleasure that demands the use of ones mind! Not in the sense of problem solving, but in the sense of exercising discrimination, judgment, awareness.

Live a life as a monument to your soul.