There's nothing of any importance in life-except how well you do your work.

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

A man only misfortune is to forsake his Maker.

Beauty and the devil are the same thing.

The ancients tell us what is best; but we must learn of the moderns what is fittest.

I never gave up, even when people told me I'd never make it.

I don't recall being excited about a new rapper, ever.

Defaced ruins of architecture and statuary, like the wrinkles of decrepitude of a once beautiful woman, only make one regret that one did not see them when they were enchanting.

Being relatively unmoved by rewards gives you the incalculable power to go your own way.

God's grace and forgiveness, while free to the recipient, are always costly for the giver.

I don’t like to be alone, but I do cherish the moments that I’m alone with a good book.

The instant field of the present is at all times what I call the 'pure' experience. It is only virtually or potentially either object or subject as yet.