No concept man forms is valid unless he integrates it without contradiction into the sum of his knowledge.

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

Just because you see bad contents in few pages of the bookIt doesn't mean the whole contents in that book are bad too

Every day, getting up early in the morning before much traffic, my wife takes me 10 miles from home, drops me off, and I have to get back.

I am shamelessly biased about the people in my life, and it makes sense to me that other people are the same.

Everything in this life has a purpose, there are no mistakes, no coincidences.

Law is a silvery web that lets the big flies pass and catches all the small ones.

Death and loss, they plague you. So do memories. Like the Mississippi's incessant slap against the levees, they creep up with deceptive sweetness before grabbing your heart and pulling it under.

I want to be the victim of his errors.

I had rather munch a crust of brown bread and an onion in a corner, without any more ado, or ceremony, than feed upon turkey at another man's table.

Sometimes we are only aware of how happy we are when the moment has passed. But now and again, if we are very lucky, we are aware of happiness when it is actually happening.

I know people can change-right down to my bones, through every cell, in every fiber of my body-I now that people can change. It is just a question of when and in what context.