Quote by Ayn Rand (1905-1982)

• The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity.

• What do you know and how do you know it?

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

• If devotion to truth is the hallmark of morality, then there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act of a man who assumes the responsibility of thinking...the alleged short-cut to knowledge, which is faith, is only a short-circuit destroying the mind.

• The most depraved type of being is that without purpose.

• Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the individual).