They talked about nothing in particular, sentences that had meaning only in the sound of the voices, in warm gaiety, in the ease of complete relaxation.

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

Perhaps a child, like a cat, is so much inside of himself that he does not see himself in the mirror.

The struggle between centralization and decentralization is at the core of American history.

All who know their own minds know not their own hearts.

I make myself laugh all the time. I think I'm really funny. I do.

America will be far safer if we reduce the chances of a terrorist attack in one of our cities than if we diminish the civil liberties of our own people.

The big cities of America are becoming Third World countries.

This [the intelligent design movement] isn't really, and never has been, a debate about science, it's about religion and philosophy.

The agony of lovers burns with the fire of passion. Lovers leave traces of where they've been. The wailing of broken hearts is the doorway to God.

My life is a story about who God is and what He does in a human heart.

How far we are going to read a poet when we can read about a poet is a problem to lay before biographers.