Roark smiled, "Gail, if this boat were sinking, I'd give my life to save you. Not because it's any kind of duty. Only because I like you, for reasons and standards of my own. I could die for you. But I couldn't and wouldn't live for you.

I am interested in politics so that one day I will not have to be interested in politics.

She thought: at this moment, the glass stem between his fingers feels just like the one between mine. We have this much in common.

Some day, the world will discover that, without thought, there can be no love.

Self respect is something that can't be killed. The worst thing is to kill a man's pretense at it.

"Mediocrity" doesn't mean average intelligence, it means an average intelligence that resents and envies its betters.

He never felt lonliness except when he was happy.