The action required to sustain human life is primarily intellectual; everything man needs has to be discovered by his mind and produced by his effort.

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

There is only one kind of immorality in fiction, and that is when you write badly.

Recently, I was in Bernalda, my dad's ancestral home town in Italy. He has just refurbished a palazzo and turned it into a hotel, so we had my sister's wedding there. It was beautiful.

I was anorexic. I was in hell. Now I eat what I want, and I'm still a model. So you see, it works.

I never blame failure - there are too many complicated situations in life - but I am absolutely merciless toward lack of effort.

If a foreign government had imposed this system of education on the United States, we would rightly consider it an act of war.

If passion rules, how weak does reason prove!

Hope is ambiguous, but fear is precious.

When I create a collection, I approach it with a cinematic point of view-I am not designing clothes, I'm creating a world.

I have the same opinion of dances that physicians have of mushrooms: the best of them are good for nothing.

I firmly believe that the court should take another direction on many of these moral issues that face us.