The doctrine that 'human rights' are superior to 'property rights' simply means that some human beings have the right to make property out of others.

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

Archaeological discoveries made in Egypt and in the Near East in the past hundred years have opened our eyes to a spiritual and cultural heritage undreamed of by earlier generations.

The total efforts of the last 20 years of climate policy has likely reduced global emissions by less than 1 percent, or about 250 million metric tons of carbon dioxide per year.

I'd like to say let your kids go out and play. Then I'd say you're not going to do that are you? Make your kids go out and play.

I avoid roles that might send me down a road where I might end up being typecast.

There is love, and there is work; and we have only one heart.

Before I got glasses, I thought Monet was the world's only realist landscape painter.

To get joy, we must give it and to keep joy, we must scatter it.

Thus will we deal with life, my little help-meet. Will we not, eh? What though it blink at us like an owl that is blinded by the sun, we will yet force it to smile.

Make sure you pay attention to what's right with your life, not just what's wrong.

I arrange my subject as I want it, then I go ahead and paint it, like a child.