In order to deal with reality successfully - to pursue and achieve the values which his life requires - man needs self-esteem; he needs to be confident of his efficacy and worth.

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

Hope is not a sin, and neither is fidelity.

He is as full of valor as of kindness. Princely in both.

If a person is treated like a patient, they are apt to act like one.

If you tell a woman she is beautiful, whisper it softly, for if the devil hears, he will echo it many times.

I think the media has to continually remind itself, and I think we do but sometimes not well enough that we're not just an economic property.

I'm old and my knowledge is strictly horizontal.

flight from tyranny does not of itself insure a safe asylum, far less a happy home.

Enlightenment is not something you achieve. It is the absence of something. All your life you have been going forward after something, pursuing some goal. Enlightenment is dropping all that.

As long as American democracy remains healthy, there will be reporters willing to pursue the truth, even if that means incurring the wrath of the most powerful person in the world.

A good poem is not completely a poem until it has received a critical response that grows out of the poem in an almost biological way.