So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of all money?

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

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

Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.

I was excited to do something, even if I didn't know what it was. I think you need that feeling—that excitement, that fire—to make your dreams a reality. (p.59)

I think we're actually the only sport that has a mix of men and women competing together. The majority of other sports are separated by gender.

We have our ambition for the future and God. And thus we put God as a plus sign after something else we want.

There is a little boy inside the man who is my brother... Oh, how I hated that little boy. And how I love him too.

I think there is always going to be inspired music and there are always going to be inspired listeners and there is always going to be an inspired method of getting it from A to B.

Words not only affect us temporarily; they change us, they socialize or unsocialize us.

You never want to play too vampiric or generically evil, so you look for emotions or character traits that you can relate to.

My career came together very quickly. I only trained for four years before I became a professional, so I didn't have a lot of time to sit back and be inspired before I took my first ballet class.

The transition from the defensive to the offensive is one of the most delicate operations in war.

Anybody that has a decent job or career has it because they love what they do.