Self respect is something that can’t be killed. The worst thing is to kill a man’s pretense at it.
- Ayn Rand
Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.
- Ayn Rand
Live and act within the limit of your knowledge and keep expanding it to the limit of your life.
- Ayn Rand
But why should you care what people will say? All you have to do is please yourself.
- Ayn Rand
I never found beauty in longing for the impossible and never found the possible to be beyond my reach.
- Ayn Rand
The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.
- Ayn Rand
Never think of pain or danger or enemies a moment longer than is necessary to fight them.
- Ayn Rand
My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own purpose.
- Ayn Rand
You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.
- Ayn Rand
A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.
- Ayn Rand
But I married a guy who treated me very badly, but I was happy. I was miserable, so I was happy.
- Lynn Johnston