The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.

– Ayn Rand

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.

– Ayn Rand

“I could die for you. But I couldn’t, and wouldn’t, live for you.”

– Ayn Rand

Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death.
– Ayn Rand

There can be no such thing, in law or in morality, as actions to an individual, but permitted to a mob.
– 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