You are an unusual, brilliant child who has not seen enough of life to grasp the full measure of human stupidity.

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

We are born from a quiet sleep, and we die to a calm awakening

I lived with the terrible knowledge that one day I would be an old man still waiting for my real life to start. Already, I pitied that old man.

Although I'm not an orphan and I can't lift a horse. I was, however, briefly famous for my feats of strength: at about age 11, I could competitively arm-wrestle a full-grown man.

The lucky biographers find themselves drawn into a sort of friendship with their subject.

I think I am the greatest fighter in any class.

Well, it seems to me that the best relationships-the ones that last-are frequently the ones that are rooted in friendship.

There are a lot of people who pretend to have moral ethics and they talk from both sides of their mouth.

Why Paris? Paris needs no reason. Paris is its own reason.

Drug use and procrastination often go hand in tourniquet.

Not all politicians are bonkers, but most of them are.