Is it advisable to spread out all the conveniences of culture before people to whom a few steps up a stair to a library is a sufficient deterrent from reading?

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

Vampires have credit cards?""We're undead, not Amish.

Come out, come out, wherever you are... come out, come out, or you'll end up in the tar...

In passing, we should note this curious mark of our own age: the only absolute allowed is the absolute insistence that there is no absolute.

Unless I accept my faults I will most certainly doubt my virtues.

I cannot say to be glad or not glad to be on Everest. It is my life. I have opportunity to be here, so I am here.

I tend to have a very analytical mind, I'm constantly thinking about how things can be better or different.

Our humanness is the part of us that we try and push away, that we don't want to see, that we don't like. It's about self-acceptance, number one, and it's also about accepting our creation.

Longing becomes more poignant if in the distance you can't tell whether your friend is going away or coming back. The pushing away pulls you in.

I can figure out which Spice Girl I wanna impregnate.

I've always been athletic and a dancer, so I love doing fight choreography.