The code of competence is the only system of morality that's on a gold standard.

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

You're never ready for what you have to do. You just do it. That makes you ready.

The same thought resonates.

I have learned from my mistakes, and I am sure I can repeat them exactly

While local economies may experience significant price imbalances, a national severe price distortion seems most unlikely in the United States, given its size and diversity.

My parents are wonderful, practical, sensible people, and the expectation was that I would study something academic.

Be ever on your guard what you say of anybody and to whom.

One thing I feel is this: that a great deal of poetry is the product of adolescence-or of an emotionally adolescent frame of mind: and that as this state of mind changes, poetry is likely to dry up.

I was told that when you hit forty men stop looking at you. It's true, until you slip on a mini-skirt.

As to the Indians, the guiding principle was, promise them anything just so long as they get out of the way.

I was always laughing in church.