Ayn Rand Fountainhead Quotations

My dear fellow, who will let you?" "That's not the point. The point is, who will stop me?

Self respect is something that can't be killed. The worst thing is to kill a man's pretense at it.

In all proper relationships there is no sacrifice of anyone to anyone.

The man who attempts to live for others is a dependent. He is a parasite in motive and makes parasites of those he serves.

Your soul has a single basic function-the act of valuing.

Toohey: "Mr. Roark, we're alone here. Why don't you tell me what you think of me? In any words you wish. No one will hear us." Roark: "But I don't think of you.

"You were not born to be a second-hander." Howard Roark to Gail Wynand in "The Fountainhead"

I am a man who does not exist for others.

You have been the one encounter in my life that can never be repeated

Self-sacrifice? But it is precisely the self that cannot and must not be sacrificed.

Show me your achievement, and the knowledge will give me courage for mine.

Every form of happiness is private. Our greatest moments are personal, self-motivated, not to be touched".

One loses everything when one loses one's sense of humor.

Never ask people. Not about your work. Don't you know what you want? How can you stand it, not to know?

I came here to say that I do not recognize anyone's right to one minute of my life.

Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.

The great creators-the thinkers, the artists, the scientists, the inventors-stood alone against the men of their time.

Creation comes before distribution -- or there will be nothing to distribute.