Life is a value to be bought and thinking is the only coin noble enough to buy it.

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

A politician has an axe to grindWith which he aims to chop off half your mind.

Happiness will never be any greater than the idea we have of it.

Critical in this process of wisdom being passed down is that you also need to take it in; you need to listen to it.

If all art aspires to the condition of music, all the sciences aspire to the condition of mathematics.

The only thing I can't stand is discomfort.

After years of making wrong decisions in my life, in 1977 I found out that it was all right to be square, simple, and sober.

If a man is not peaceful and non-violent, whichever religion he belongs to, he is not a man! Violence degrades man to a low-degree creature!

Leisure only means a chance to do other jobs that demand attention.

I am for marriage. I am for fidelity. I am for love, whether it's a man and woman, a woman and a woman, a man and a man.

The Hindus have to learn a little bit of materialism from the West and teach them a little bit of spirituality.