Ayn Rand

There is nothing wrong in helping other people, if and when they are worthy of the help and you can afford to help them.

Ayn Rand

There is only one source of authentic self-confidence: reason.

Ayn Rand

Thinking men cannot be ruled; ambitious men do not stagnate.

Ayn Rand

Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps, down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision.

Ayn Rand

To abstain from condemning a torturer, is to become an accessory to the torture and murder of his victims.

Ayn Rand

To arrive at a contradiction is to confess an error in one’s thinking; to maintain a contradiction is to abdicate one’s mind and to evict oneself from the realm of reality.

Ayn Rand

To be the kind of writer you want to be, you must first be the kind of thinker you want to be.

Ayn Rand

To deal with men by force is as impractical as to deal with nature by persuasion.

Ayn Rand

To preserve one’s mind intact through a modern college education is a test of courage and endurance, but the battle is worth it and the stakes are the highest possible to man: the survival of reason.

Ayn Rand

To say ‘I love you’ one must first be able to say the ‘I.’

Ayn Rand