It [ballet] projects a fragile kind of strength and a certain inflexible precision.

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

Children are forced to live very rapidly in order to live at all. They are given only a few years in which to learn hundreds of thousands of things about life and the planet and themselves.

Worry is most apt to ride you ragged not when you are in action but when the day's work is done. Your imagination can run riot then ... your mind is like a motor operating without its load.

If you are a girl dressing up in the morning thinking about the whole world having a point of view on what you are wearing, it takes the pleasure out of getting dressed.

With our trade deals we are always second. You can pick any country and they're eating our lunch and making us look bad and so we're going to change that.

Reserving judgements is a matter of infinite hope.

People are constantly asking me if I'm pregnant, but I don't like to talk about it too much. I just think about it as the next phase. We'll see.

I'll also tell you that to no less extent my mom, who was the daughter of Irish immigrants.

I read very widely, both non-fiction and fiction, so I don't think there's a single writer who influences me.

For what good is freedom of expression if you lack the means to express yourself?

Like ultraviolet rays memory shows to each man in the book of life a script that invisibly and prophetically glosses the text.