Happiness, satisfaction, fulfillment, joy, love... All these things work the same way. The more you search for them, the less likely you are to find them.

I think the more we fill our lives with more and more things we have to do, the less and less time we are spending on who we have to be.

Decide, first, to simply be.

Doing, in a life of balance, should be driven from who you have decided to be.

The world laughed at any attempts we made to exist in it without pain.

Everyone wanted me to feed them that story—darkness to light, weakness to strength, broken to whole. I wanted it, too.

metaphors are dangerous. Metaphors are not to be trifled with. A single metaphor can give birth to love

Do not let go of your right to make your own decisions, because by doing so you are letting go of who you really are.

The right of the majority is absolute.

It's not just about me. It's about all of us, accepting one another. We're all different... That's a good thing.

I think it would be bizarre to pick somebody to speak at the convention based on their sexual preference, because once you go down that road, why don't you pick a transvestite?

If I was a woman, I would be dressed in the same thing for a month and just change my hat and gloves. Maybe my shoes too; yes, I see what you mean but, really, it's jewels that change an outfit.

If Ayn Rand were an up-and-coming author today, she wouldn't write about steel or railroads, it would be Net Neutrality.

But there was one other thing that the grown-ups also knew, and it was this: that however small the chance might be of striking lucky, the chance is there. The chance had to be there.