I refuse to accept as guilt the fact of my own existence.

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

With you, it's different. I can see the rest of my life before my eyes and that scares me a little. Men don't tame my wild heart but somehow I crossed your path and have never been the same since.

Reading enables me to maintain a sense of something substantive– my ethical integrity, my intellectual integrity.

Live for a reasonLive with passion.

A novelist has to know enough about a subject to fool the passenger next to him on an airplane.

Mark it. The success of people may excite you. But the challenges they went through to achieve it will annoy you.

So far he’d been there for three hours, hadn’t gotten a thing done, was heading out for a free lunch, and was getting paid for it. Jobs were awesome.

Closing your mind to religion is no different than the close-mindedness that religions can cause.

Who is sure of their own motives can in confidence advance or retreat.

It takes a long time to grow an old friend. Trust is built one single moment at a time.

Get the big truth first. If you get the big truth, the small truths will accumulate around it.