It is not death that we wish to avoid, but life that we wish to live.

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

I just can't listen to any more Wagner, you know...I'm starting to get the urge to conquer Poland.

I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.

I know there's a proverb which that says 'To err is human,' but a human error is nothing to what a computer can do if it tries.

Look, architecture has a lot of places to hide behind, a lot of excuses. "The client made me do this." "The city made me do this." "Oh, the budget." I don't believe that anymore.

See the gift that change delivers.

But if you think you aren't creative that's cool, too. I think being around people who aren't creative is kind of refreshing and nice.

Surprisingly enough, I haven't had a letter from Amateur Boxing Scotland bosses offering their congratulations for my Melbourne medal win.

If you’re hard on yourself, life will be easy on you.

The Emrys! The Emrys is here!' Merlin shook his head in astonishment. 'Has it come to this?' he wondered. 'Even small children know me by sight.

No doubt solitude is wholesome, but so is abstinence after a surfeit. The true life of man is in society.