The moral is the chosen, not the forced; the understood, not the obeyed. The moral is the rational, and reason accepts no commandments.

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

It causes us to focus our attention on ourselves and draws us away from God

Daniel 12:3 "...and those who turn the many to righteousness will shine the stars forever.

Art must take reality by surprise.

Humans may be the only creatures on Earth who spend significant time thinking about the fact that someday their lives will end.

I like to feel that every day or most days, I do a little bit of writing. I am a creature of habit in terms of the way I live.

It's not a holiday until you overdo it!

It is often a comfort in misfortune to know our own fate. [Lat., Saepe calamitas solatium est nosse sortem suam.]

All envy would be extinguished, if it were universally known that there are none to be envied.

Gods, how I’ve missed you. (Stryker) I hate you with every beat of my heart. (Zephyra)

No man ever sailed over exactly the same route that another sailed over before him; every man who starts on the ocean of life arches his sails to an untried breeze.