If a dedication page were to precede the total of my work, it would read: To the glory of Man.

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

But I have seen the best of you and the worst of you, and I choose both

Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate you are sure to wake up somebody.

Having been unable to strengthen justice, we have justified strength.

Making peace, I have found, is much harder than making war.

We must remind ourselves that to do what is possible we must sometimes challenge ourselves with the impossible.

It's not government that makes business successful. It's not government investments that makes businesses grow and hire people.

Is there a connection between language and magic? Yes. Ten times yes. So much yes that it almost doesn't bear talking about. It's as pointless that arguing that the sun is hot.

God needs blood to fix the universe, but only his own blood had enough magical power to do it, so he gave himself a body and then killed it.

At the time we acquired Viacom, everyone said I had overpaid. But even at today's depressed prices, that investment is worth billions. Everyone was saying MTV was a fad. I knew better.

In the night, imagining some fear, How easy is a bush supposed a bear!