This book is an anthology of 153 quotes from Ayn Rand and 70 selected facts about Ayn Rand. Ayn Rand was born Alisa Zinov’yevna Rosenbaum on February 2, 1905, to a Russian Jewish bourgeois family living in Saint Petersburg. Ayn Rand acknowledged Aristotle as her greatest influence and remarked that in the history of philosophy she could only recommend “three A’s” — Aristotle, Aquinas, and Ayn Rand. Her father, Zinovy Rosenbaum, was a successful pharmacist and businessman, owning a pharmacy and the building in which it was located. Ayn Rand began writing screenplays at the age of eight and novels at the age of ten. When Ayn Rand arrived in New York City on February 19, 1926, she was so impressed with the skyline of Manhattan that she cried what she later called “tears of splendor”. An essay about the Polish actress Pola Negri became her first published work. Between Ayn Rand and former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan existed long-time friendship. Ayn Rand adored Hugh Hefner, describing him as “very intelligent.” After she visited the Playboy Club, she declared it “a wonderful place and a brilliant undertaking.” Actress Eva Mendes told Askmen.com that any potential boyfriend “has to be an Ayn Rand fan.” A Conformist is a man who declares, “It’s true because others believe it” – but an Individualist is NOT a man who declares, “It’s true because I believe it.” An Individual declares, “I believe it because I see in reason that it is true. A “collective” mind does not exist. It is merely the sum of endless numbers of individual minds. If we have an endless number of individual minds who are weak, meek, submissive and impotent – who renounce their creative supremacy for the sake of the “whole” and accept humbly that the “whole’s” verdict – we don’t get a collective super-brain. We get only the weak, meek, submissive and impotent collective mind. A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others. A government is the most dangerous threat to man’s rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims. A leash is a rope with a noose at both ends. A man’s ego is the fountainhead of human progress. A man’s sexual choice is the result and the sum of his fundamental convictions…. He will always be attracted to the woman who reflects his deepest vision of himself, the woman whose surrender permits him to experience a sense of self-esteem. The man who is proudly certain of his own value, will want the highest type of woman he can find, the woman he admires, the strongest, the hardest to conquer–because only the possession of a heroine will give him the sense of an achievement.