It's so graceless, being a martyr. It's honouring your adversaries too much.

The sky is like a black sieve pierced by silver drops that tremble, ready to burst through.

Many words have been granted me, and some are wise, and some are false, but only three are holy: "I will it!

I've always thought that a feeling which changes never existed in the first place.

There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist.

If you know that this life is all that you have, wouldn't you make the most of it?

Everyone has the right to make his own decisions, but none has the right to force his decision on others.

Never ask people. Not about your work. Don't you know what you want? How can you stand it, not to know?

We are born into this world unarmed - our mind is our only weapon.

A house can have integrity, just like a person,' said Roark, 'and just as seldom.

We'll meet again. We'll meet when years have passed, and years make such a difference, don't they?

So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of all money?

There are no contradictions. If you find one, check your premises.

I dont work with collectives. I don't consult, I don't co-operate, I don't collaborate.

The world is perishing from an orgy of self-sacrificing.

The secrets of this earth are not for all men to see, but only for those who will seek them.

Genius is an exaggeration of dimension. So is elephantiasis. Both may be only a disease.

The world you desire can be won, it exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours.

Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps, down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision.