You'd let the whole world perish rather than soil that immaculate self of yours with a single spot of which you'd have to be ashamed.

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

There are lots of fish in the sea. Some are sharks, some are angels, and some are bottom feeders.

Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine.

We are more disturbed by a calamity which threatens us than by one which has befallen us.

I don't see myself as a moviemaker only, you know? When I can do a picture, I do. But I don't work like a business, in pictures. I am not obliged to make one picture after the other in order to live.

I'm actually very sensitive to energies, and when people are not aligned, I can feel that.

The thankful heart opens our eyes to a multitude of blessings that continually surround us

Playful arising is authorized by both risk and trust in the process and in oneself. To be truly playful and improvisational one must not look for results.

In July the Sun is hot. Is it shining? No, it's not!

I think the police are a major part of the glue that holds civilised life together. They're not highly paid.

Yeah, that's a cool name, but it's a monstrous intrusion into our affairs.