I want to be prepared to claim the greatest virtue of all - that I was a man who made money

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

Solitude helps you to convert your time into the clarity of purpose.

I think the way the sun shines on you has nothing to do with the sun but everything to do with you.

Opportunity comes to those who are willing to take it.

Part of the middle class promise is that, after a lifetime of hard work, you'll be able to retire and enjoy the fruits of that labor. Medicare was established to secure that promise.

There is nothing that can be changed more completely than human nature when the job is taken in hand early enough.

Blacks are about seven times more likely to live in neighborhoods of concentrated poverty than whites.

I hate the confessional. I love leaving the confessional. I hate going to the confessional. I would be a mess without it.

I'm 63. It's kind extraordinary that I'm out here at all and people want to see me.

Fascism is relatively easy to explain. It is a reactionary phenomenon. Nazism was some bad guys having some bad ideas and unfortunately succeeding in realizing them.

As created beings, angels are not to be worshipped, glorified, or adored in and of themselves. The angels were created to worship, glorify, adore, and obey God.