She thought: at this moment, the glass stem between his fingers feels just like the one between mine. We have this much in common.

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 take the train from platform nine and three-quarters, " - Harry Potter

You could say people are living longer because of the decline in religion. Not many people believe in the hereafter, so they keep going.

The rich man is always sold to the institution which makes him rich. Absolutely speaking, the more money, the less virtue.

Goodbye," I whisper at last, when it no longer matters and there is no one to hear it but the window.

Everything harmonizes with me, which is harmonious to thee, o Universe. Nothing for me is too early or too late, which is in due time for thee.

If a young man at the age of twenty-three can write a symphony like that, in five years he will be ready to commit murder.

No matter how much you may change or how life may change, God never changes, and His promises never fail.

So often we have a kind of vague, wistful longing that the promises of Jesus should be true. The only way really to enter into them is to believe them with the clutching intensity of a drowning man.

[the war in Iraq] "could have terrifically good effects troughout the Middle East