...if ever you hear a man telling you that you must be happy, that it’s your natural right, that your first duty is to yourself—that will be the man who’s not after your soul.

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

If you want to do something that really changes someone’s life, the best thing you can do is make the person you’re trying to help a participant in the process.

Without emotion, what's the point of being human?

A lot of people with a lot of ill gotten wealth may think that they have high net worth, but will simply never be worthy of any trust or respect.

Each day is a little life every waking and rising a little birth every fresh morning a little youth every going to rest and sleep a little death.

America betrays its friends. It sets them up and betrays them. I'd rather be America's enemy.

I bet on a horse at ten-to-one. It didn't come in until half-past five.

But love is different for every person. For some it's hate, for some it's joy, for some it's fear, for some it's jealousy, for some it's torture, for some it's peace. For some it's everything.

I've actually always been fussy about the work I do.

Everything is an illusion.

I play a guy who is 40. And I am a very good actor, because I'm 41.