What is greatness? I will answer: it is the capacity to live by the three fundamental values of John Galt: reason, purpose, self-esteem.

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

open science is returning science to its true essence

This was the price for the the strange life she had chosen, but she had gone into it with eyes open, and there was no profit in regret.

The essence of death is discovered in the gap between one moment ceasing and another one beginning. That essence is the wakefulness that is our true nature.

When people recognise me they just kind of go 'Hi how are you, ' really kind of cool you know.

Bitterness is so ugly.

You'll learn more from your accidents than anything that you could ever learn at school.

If you would be happy, render a kind service, make somebody else happy.

Young Frank Pastore may have pitched the biggest victory of 1979. Maybe the biggest victory of the year!

As a general thing, I have not 'duped the world' nor attempted to do so... I have generally given people the worth of their money twice told.