There is no greater wealth than to own your life and spend it on living.

Quote by Ayn Rand

Topics: Atlas Shrugged Quotes, Celebrate Life Quotes

The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim...

The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim...

In that world, you'll be able to rise in the morning with the spirit you...

In that world, you'll be able to rise in the morning with the spirit you...

Just as man can't exist without his body, so no rights can exist without the...

Just as man can't exist without his body, so no rights can exist without the...

Ask yourself whether the dream of heaven and greatness should be waiting for us in...

Ask yourself whether the dream of heaven and greatness should be waiting for us in...

He liked to observe emotions; they were like red lanterns strung along the dark unknown...

He liked to observe emotions; they were like red lanterns strung along the dark unknown...

That love is reverence, and worship, and glory, and the upward glance. Not a bandage...

That love is reverence, and worship, and glory, and the upward glance. Not a bandage...

There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist.

There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist.

A desire presupposes the possibility of action to achieve it; action presupposes a goal which...

A desire presupposes the possibility of action to achieve it; action presupposes a goal which...

A government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly...

A government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly...

Do not ever say that the desire to do good by force is a good...

Do not ever say that the desire to do good by force is a good...

If any civilization is to survive, it is the morality of altruism that men have...

If any civilization is to survive, it is the morality of altruism that men have...

Why do they always teach us that it's easy and evil to do what we...

Why do they always teach us that it's easy and evil to do what we...

A culture is made -- or destroyed -- by its articulate voices.

A culture is made -- or destroyed -- by its articulate voices.

Anything may be betrayed, anyone may be forgiven, but not those who lack the courage...

Anything may be betrayed, anyone may be forgiven, but not those who lack the courage...

To achieve, you need thought. You have to know what you are doing and that's...

To achieve, you need thought. You have to know what you are doing and that's...

Only the man who does not need it, is fit to inherit wealth, the man...

Only the man who does not need it, is fit to inherit wealth, the man...

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

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

From the smallest necessity to the highest religious abstraction, from the wheel to the skyscraper,...

From the smallest necessity to the highest religious abstraction, from the wheel to the skyscraper,...

Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins.

Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins.

Upper classes are a nation's past; the middle class is its future.

Upper classes are a nation's past; the middle class is its future.