Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority.

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

Until we are all free, we are none of us free.

I want to be remembered as a kid who went down fighting, and didn't really lose

A conversion is a lonely experience.

Most wives think of their husbands as bumbling braggarts with whom they happen to be in love.

I will get my respect or I will die.

I use singing as a warm-up before big scenes I have to do on set. It's also great to make people less nervous.

Encourage your kids' artistic side. Toughen up everything else.

We don't want our politicians bending to the whims of whichever corporation has the money to pay them off.

It was rather a cessation of war than a beginning of peace. [Lat., Bellum magis desierat, quam pax coeperat.]

Take good advice, make sure it is good advice, then do it your way.