When you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice, you may know that your society is doomed

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.

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

Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.

You are more likely to find three TVs inside a randomly selected house than you are to find a single book that is or was not read to pass an exam, to please God, or to be a better cook.

Dream is a window to the other realm

The reality is that moments of impact, which are your new reality, change without notice, and you have to be alert to theirunderlying patterns of change.

the best ideas flow at night

I don't know what's waiting for us when we die--something better, something worse. I only know I'm not ready to find out yet.

Prayer is not eloquence, but earnestness; not the definition of helplessness, but the feeling of it; not figures of speech, but earnestness of soul.

There are a lot of ways to become a failure, but never taking a chance is the most successful. As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it.

We wouldn't be successful if we didn't have independent thinkers who can argue and then resolve their arguments.

I think the show has sort of given me a name in this business and allowed a lot of people the opportunity to see what I can do, and it's just sort of like a sweet starting point.

If I can make someone laugh, I lift them out of their fundamentally tragic existence.