You have been the one encounter in my life that can never be repeated

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

Candace doesn't have to worry about me being busy in my world without you, because you are my world.

I'm not tall enough to be a model, but I wish I was 6-foot, because I love it. It's kind of artsy, and I'm artsy. And I love clothes.

I want a Supreme Court that will stick with Roe v. Wade and a woman's right to choose, and I want a Supreme Court that will stick with marriage equality.

Any movement in history which attempts to perpetuate itself, becomes reactionary.

I feel like at 50 I've decided to become a rock star, which is, you know, typical of me. I always seem to work backwards.

I think things evolve into jokes. I don't generally write them down as jokes. I talk them out.

The watch-dog's voice that bay'd the whispering wind, And the loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind.

At the centre of every fairy tale lay a truth that gave the story its power

Inherited aptitudes and traits of temperament count for quite as much as length of habituation in deciding what range of habits will come to dominate any individual's scheme of life.