The mark of an honest man... is that he means what he says and knows what he means.

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

The measure of a person’s strength is not his muscular power or strength, but it is his flexibility and adaptability.

Our best friends and our worst enemies are our thoughts. A thought can do us more good than a doctor or a banker or a faithful friend. It can also do us more harm than a brick.

We are reformers in Spring and Summer in Autumn and Winter we stand by the old reformers in the morning conservers at night.

For misery don't blame God. He gives the food but we cook it.

Some books seem like a key to unfamiliar rooms in one’s own castle.

The marathon never ceases to be a race of joy, a race of wonder.

Men without joy seem like corpses.

Calvin [Trillin] has never done anything majorly objectionable.

The Roman Empire was fairly tolerant of religious choice as long as you made a point not of thumbing your nose in public at the Roman gods.

The dreamer in her Had fallen in love with me and she did not know it. That moment the dreamer in me Fell in love with her and I knew it