It's a rare gift, you know, to feel reverence for your own life and to want the best, the greatest, the highest possible, here, now, for your very own.

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

running a business without marketing will kill it

But Saudi Arabia is surprising in a lot of ways. Like any place, or any people, it relentlessly defies easy categorization.

When it comes to knowing what to say, to charm, I always had it.

I think it's interesting to see how things come into and go out of fashion.

Divine Nature gave the fields, human art built the cities.

Art is the child of imagination and gives life.

Somewhere along the way you will have to learn to just Trust Life.

If you have distance from the events, then your story can work as an analogy or parable, rather than its literal narrative.

The ecological crisis is a moral issue.

What I call loaded, I'm not. What other people call loaded I am.