When you force a man to act against his own choice and judgment, it's his thinking that you want him to suspend.

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 gust of wind doesn't suddenly bang a door open. A clock doesn't chime. The phone doesn't ring. Yet in the next instant the stillness breaks as if it is crystal.

I have a motto that if something isn’t blatantly impossible, then there must be a way of doing it.

The Constitution was framed in order to form a more perfect union, not to establish mass confusion.

I think in order to push kids and coach kids the way we want to coach them, we've got to have their trust.

Knowing where she was in the world, even if he never touched her, gave him a deep satisfaction, and he half despised himself for being satisfied with so little.

I am dominated by one thing, an irresistible, burning attraction towards the abstract.

The sickness of the heart is most easily got rid of by complaining and soothing confidence.

I have always had this necessity to win. When I played with my friends on the street, football or running, I always wanted to be the best.

All will be well, and every kind of thing will be well.

You never really fail until you stop wanting.