The difference between animals and humans is that animals change themselves for the environment, but humans change the environment for themselves.

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

...[Y]ou cannot successfully navigate the future unless you keep always framed beside it a small clear image of the past.

In the world of ideas everything was clear; in life all was obscure, embroiled.

Capitalism: Nothing so mean could be right. Greed is the ugliest of the capital sins.

I credit my mom Debbie for creating a solid family base, ... She gave me a strong sense of reality so I could avoid falling into the normal pitfalls of child actors.

Nothing is more portable than rich people and their money

I love marriage. I failed at marriage, but I'd rather go into anything with gusto and fail than go into it half-assed.

Time and space recede and blast away like a universe expanding forever outward, and leaving only darkness and the two of us on its periphery, darkness and breathing and touch.

... Change doesn't happen overnight-it's molded by people who don't give up

One of the special characteristics of New York is that it is different from a London or a Paris because it's the financial capital, and the cultural capital, but not the political capital.

How could you forget someone you loved even if I did rip his heart to shreds?