I guard my treasures: my thoughts, my will, my freedom. And the greatest of these is freedom.

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

I guess a bit part of serious fiction’s purpose is to give the reader, who like all of us is sort of marooned in her own skull, to give her imaginative access to other selves.

It is not so much that we, using our brains, spin our yarns, as that our brains, using yarns, spin us.

Though earth and man were gone, And suns and universes ceased to be, And Thou wert left alone, Every existence would exist in Thee.

You can just sit and space out. A lot of people do that and think they are doing a wonderful meditation.

The only excuse for God is that he doesn't exist.

It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance, for our consideration and application of these things, and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.

You want bold? Ask the hundreds of defensive backs I ran over during my career if they think I'm bold.

Mys philosophy toward art is true to my time, true to my dream, and true to myself.

If you want the truth to stand clear before you, never be for or against.