Roark spoke quietly. He was the only man in the room who felt certain of his own words.

Freedom (n.): To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.

To sell your soul is the easiest thing in the world. That's what everybody does every hour of his life. If I asked you to keep your soul - would you understand why that's much harder?

Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.

Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.

Self-sacrifice? But it is precisely the self that cannot and must not be sacrificed.

I love you so much that nothing can matter to me - not even you...Only my love- not your answer. Not even your indifference

Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artists metaphysical value judgments.

The age of the skyscraper is gone. This is the age of the housing project. Which is always a prelude to the age of the cave.

No speech is ever considered, but only the speaker. It's so much easier to pass judgement on a man than on an idea.

What is kinder--to believe the best of people and burden them with a nobility beyond their endurance--or to see them as they are, and accept it because it makes them comfortable?

Words have power, and sometimes, they stay withyou for life. It’s up to you to allow those words to define who you become.

Oh invisible, we view thee, O world intangible, we touch thee, o world unknowable, we know thee.

I find comedians to be the biggest cocksuckers, because they don't want people to know how easy it is.

Love the calling you have, not the one you wish you had.

Rise above sectional interests and private ambitions... Pass from matter to spirit. Matter is diversity; spirit is light, life and unity.

You always get that energy, you just want to be heard, to go out, do your thing and show people that we have just as much talent here as everywhere else.

Don't listen to the fools who say that pictures of people can be of no consequence, or that painting is dead. There is much to be done.

American labor will realize that its function is not to increase jobs, but to multiply the wealth and to expand the numbers benefited by the wealth at the swiftest possible rate.

It's not what you say out of your mouth that determines your life,it's what you whisper to yourself that has the most power!

Meaningful work, not welfare, is every American's hope, and we have a continuing responsibility to make those hopes a lasting reality.