There's nothing of any importance in life — except how well you do your work. Nothing. Only that. Whatever else you are, will come from that. It's the only measure of human value.

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

Behind every trial and sorrow that He makes us shoulder, God has a reason.

The philosophers write about things as they are and as they appear to be, but as an artist I find that appearance is everything.

Kau yakin kau sudah mengecek rias wajahmu? Matamu kelihatan seperti mata panda.

Surgeons can cut out everything except cause.

It's never perfect when I write it down the first time, or the second time, or the fifth time. But it always gets better as I go over it and over it.

...the meaning of my thoughts started to float away from me, like leaves that fall from a tree into a river, I was the tree, the world was the river.

Women are foils to men. It is hard for women to take a lead role even in NGOs for political resistance.

Not to climb the high places lonely, but to climb there all together, to rise en masse! This is the way!

You shouldn't make fun of people who have issues.

The way they dress here (California), your head is always in the stands. All those bikinis, your eyes get tired.