Do not set out to write with your eyes on the box office. It can't be done.

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

Funerals are for the living, Jace, not for the dead.

...when people oppose your view, you can become a lightning rod, but if I were you, I'd let them stew...

How much verbal garbage there is going out across the air waves and across the pulpits of our land because preachers do not believe the Gospel

A peculiar work in any art must not be too hastily judged. New styles have to create new tastes.

Don't always worry what your next line is going to be.

Stupidity is always astounding, no matter how often one encounters it.

Every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid.

In Hollywood I thought I was large and klutzy, like the characters I played.

The position of the hysterical subject is that he or she always guesses what is behind the curtain, that is why such a subject usually ends up [...] giving up on love.

A relationship becomes easier when you realize that you don't have to be the one at fault to be the one who's sorry.