Quote 61
"They call it a morality of mercy and a doctrine of love for man."
Ayn Rand. Atlas Shrugged (1957).

Quote 62
"My morality, the morality of reason, is contained in a single axiom: existence exists -- and in a single choice: to live. The rest proceeds from these. To live, man must hold three things as the supreme and ruling values of his life: Reason -- Purpose -- Self-esteem. Reason, as his only tool of knowledge -- Purpose, as his choice of the happiness which that tool must proceed to achieve -- Self-esteem, as his inviolate certainty that his mind is competent to think and his person is worthy of happiness, which means: is worthy of living. These three values imply and require all of man's virtues, and all his virtues pertain to the relation of his existence and consciousness: rationality, independence, integrity, honesty, justice, productiveness, pride."
Ayn Rand. Atlas Shrugged (1957).

Quote 63
"Pride is the recognition of the fact that you are your own highest value, and like all of man's values, it has to be earned -- that of any achievements open to you, the one that makes all others possible is the creation of your own character . . . -- that as man is a being of self-made wealth, so he is a being of self-made soul . . . -- that to live requires a sense of self-value, but man, who has no automatic values, has no automatic sense of self-esteem and must earn it by shaping his soul in the image of his moral ideal, in the image of Man, the rational being he is born able to create, but must create by choice -- that the first precondition of self-esteem is that radiant selfishness of soul which desires the best in all things, in values of matter and spirit, a soul that seeks above all else to achieve its own moral perfection, valuing nothing higher than itself."
Ayn Rand. Atlas Shrugged (1957).

Quote 64
"A mystic is a man who surrendered his mind at its first encounter with the minds of others. Somewhere in the distant reaches of his childhood, when his own understanding of reality clashed with the assertions of others, with their arbitrary orders and contradictory demands, he gave in to so craven a fear of independence that he renounced his rational faculty. At the crossroads of the choice between "I know" and "They say," he chose the authority of others. His surrender took the form of the feeling that he must hide his lack of understanding, that other possess some mysterious knowledge of which he alone is deprived, that reality is whatever they want it to be, through some means forever denied to him."
Ayn Rand. Atlas Shrugged (1957).

Quote 65
"You will win when you are ready to pronounce the oath I have taken at the start of my battle -- and for those who wish to know the day of my return, I shall now repeat it to the hearing of the world:
"I swear -- by my life and my love of it -- that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine."
Ayn Rand. Atlas Shrugged (1957).

Quote 66
"In the name of the best within you, do not sacrifice this world to those who are its worst. In the name of the values that keep you alive, do not let your vision of man be distorted by the ugly, the cowardly, the mindless in those who have never achieved his title. Do not use lose your knowledge that man's proper estate is an upright posture, an intransigent mind and a step that travels unlimited roads. Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark, in the hopeless swamps of the approximate, the not-quite, the not-yet, the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish, in lonely frustration for the life you deserved, but have never been able to reach. Check your road and the nature of you battle. The world you desired can be won, it exists, it is real, it is possible, it's yours.
Ayn Rand. Atlas Shrugged (1957).

Quote 67
"But to win it requires your total dedication and a total break with the world of your past, with the doctrine that man is a sacrificial animal who exists for the pleasure of others. Fight for the value of your person. Fight for the value of your pride. Fight for the essence of that which is man: for his sovereign rational mind. Fight with the radiant certainty and the absolute rectitude of knowing that yours is the Morality of Life and that yours is the battle for any achievement, any value, any grandeur, any goodness, any joy that has ever existed on this earth.
Ayn Rand. Atlas Shrugged (1957).

Quote 68
A month to wait is a fortnight in Paris, a week in New York, a year in Soviet Russia.
Ayn Rand.
We The Living.

Quote 69
And Kira stood by a window, her hand on the dark, cold glass, and her body felt young, cold and hard as the glass, and she thought that one could stand a lot, and forget a lot, if one kept clear and firm one final aim and cause.
Ayn Rand.
We The Living.

Quote 70
The voice was exultant, breaking under an emotion it could not control. It seemed to fail suddenly in the wrong places, speaking the words not as they should have been spoken on a stage, but as a person would fling them out in delirium, unable to hold them, choking upon them. It was the voice of a somnambulist unconscious of its own sounds, knowing only the violence and the ecstasy of the dream from which it came.
Ayn Rand.
We The Living.

Quote 71
She was eighteen, without parents, censors or morals, and she was, indifferently and incongruously, a virgin.
Ayn Rand.
We The Living.

Quote 72
I don't care if they don't. I'll make them like it. I don't want to give them what they ask for. I want to make them ask for what I want to give.
Ayn Rand.
We The Living.

Quote 73
She managed - by losing her patience and calling a producer the names she had always wanted to call him - to get a part in a new play, that fall. It was not a big part, but she had one good scene. She let Roark come to the opening. What he saw, for six minutes on that stage, was a wild, incredible little creature whom he barely recognized as Vesta Dunning, a thing so free and natural and simple that she seemed fantastic.
Ayn Rand.
We The Living

Quote 74
There are things that are normal and comfortable and easy, and that's most of life for all us. And then there are also things above it, things so much more than human, and not many can bear it and then not often, but that's the only reason for living at all. Things that make you very quiet and still and it's difficult to breathe.
Ayn Rand.
We The Living.

Quote 75
It was the part of a wild, stubborn, sparkling, dreadful girl who drove to despair her family and all those approaching her. Vesta Dunning streaked across the stage with her swift, broken, contorted gait; or she stood still, her body an arc; her arms flung out, her voice a whisper; or she destroyed a profound speech with one convulsed shrug of her thin shoulders; or she laughed and all the words on that stage were wiped off by her laughter.
Ayn Rand.
We The Living.

Quote 76
When you get something for nothing you always find a string attached somewhere. Like the fish when it swallows a worm.
Ayn Rand.
Think Twice.

Quote 77
I've got to like it too. I've got to believe in what I'm doing. I've got to be proud of it. You can't do any kind of work without that. That comes first. Then you take a chance - and hope that others will like it.
Ayn Rand.
Think Twice.

Quote 78
To make mistakes. To fail. To be alone. To be rotten. To be selfish. But to be free.
Ayn Rand.
Think Twice.

Quote 79
It just smells Serge all over. A dull, presumptuous, Communist mind that counts on its insolence to overcome the intelligence of anyone else.
Ayn Rand.
Think Twice.

Quote 80
The only sin is to miss the things you want most in life. If they're taken from you, you have to reclaim them - at any price.
Ayn Rand.
Red Pawn.