A building has integrity just like a man. And just as seldom.

If the truth shall kill them, let them die.

Potentially, 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.

The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.

The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it.

When you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice, you may know that your society is doomed

We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality

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

Every aspect of Western culture needs a new code of ethics - a rational ethics - as a precondition of rebirth.

You can ignore reality, but you can't ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.

But I don't think of you. - Howard Roark

up upIf someone deprives you of history deprives you of your future

Instead of assuming that emotional intelligence is always useful, we need to think more carefully about where and when it matters.

We should have understood long ago that there is, in this world, religion without God, religion as a center of all idols that possess fallen man, religion that is the justification for these idols.

My goal has always been to try to live up to every ounce of my potential.

You can never conquer the mountain. You can only conquer yourself.

If you work on network TV, they want to pick your casts, dictate your story and how your show works. It just becomes creativity by committee, which is never good.

You should only be doing that thing that lights up your soul.

A wretched parent who claims obedience from his children, without first doing his duty by them, excites nothing but contempt.

I'm not ashamed of the things I believe and why I believe them.

In the United Nations, when China entered, we voted on the same position, and since then we have maintained the same position, that position has not changed.