"You were not born to be a second-hander." Howard Roark to Gail Wynand in "The Fountainhead"

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

I gradually became aware that my interiority was inseparable from my exteriority, that the geography of my city was the geography of my soul.

Our hearts speak the same language but more importantly our souls share the same voice.

For the being, maybe. But for the spirit, there are no quick sands.

They do not call him the terror of husbands and lovers for no reason...

Hurried and worried until we're buried and there's no curtain call Life's a very funny proposition after all.

I think people just think I am crazy because they see me doing stand-up, but I am generally not. I am very sad. I'm one of those guys that lights candles and listens to Rachmaninoff.

I felt like an apostle of the obvious and people imagined that I was doing something daring.

Maybe General Groves was right. Maybe we should just banish thinking forever.

There is a shortage of clerks. Everyone is going into journalism.

The enemy of knowledge and science is irrationalism, not religion