Life is a process of self-sustaining and self-generated action. If an organism fails in that action, it dies...It is only the concept of ‘Life’ that makes the concept of 'Value’ possible. It is only to a living entity that things can be good or evil.

"The only pride of her workday was not that it had been lived, but that it had been survived. It was wrong, she thought, it was viciously wrong that one should ever be forced to say that about any hour of one's life."

Ayn Rand

"So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of all money?"

Ayn Rand

"And, after all, you’ve got to live.”“Not that way,” said Roark."

Ayn Rand

"And no one rose to ask the question: Good?-by what standard?John Galt."

Ayn Rand

"A man’s spirit is his self. That entity which is his consciousness. To think, to feel, to judge, to act are functions of the ego."

Ayn Rand

"Money is the barometer of a society's virtue."

Ayn Rand