By Ayn Rand
Love’s greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.
I try to live with the idea that karma is a very real thing. So I put out what I want to get back.
Never play with the feelings in relationship, because you have no idea how karma plays the game.
The truth about karma you should know – Understanding the fundamental idea about karma and figure out how to control it.
The idea of karma is that you continually get the teachings that you need to open your heart.
Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values.
A building has integrity just like a man. And just as seldom.
Paris is always a good idea.
It’s that wonderful old-fashioned idea that others come first and you come second. This was the whole ethic by which I was brought up. Others matter more than you do, so “don’t fuss, dear; get on with it.”
With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.
The world is my idea.
Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability.
When you lose the ability to step up and hit the ball as hard and as far as you want, that also affects your ability to will the ball to go where you want it to go, if you know what I mean.
It is the compelling power of great thoughts and ideas to engender phrases of equal size.
There is nothing that I shudder at more than the idea of a separation of the Union. Should such an event ever happen, which I fervently pray God to avert, from that date I view our liberty gone.
I intend to leave after my death a large fund for the promotion of the peace idea, but I am skeptical as to its results.
If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied.
Mathematics is pure language – the language of science. It is unique among languages in its ability to provide precise expression for every thought or concept that can be formulated in its terms.
I am grateful for the idea that has used me.
It is the lone worker who makes the first advance in a subject: the details may be worked out by a team, but the prime idea is due to the enterprise, thought, and perception of an individual.
