It is not death that we wish to avoid, but life that we wish to live.

The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it.

Never ask people about your work.

Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper's bell of an approaching looter.

A morality that holds need as a claim, holds emptiness-non-existence-as its standard of value; it rewards an absence, a defect: weakness, inability, incompetence, suffering, disease, disaster, the lack, the fault, the flaw-the zero.

Fransisco, you're some kind of very high nobility, aren't you?" He answered, "Not yet. The reason my family has lasted for such a long time is that none of us has ever been permitted to think he is born a d'Anconia. We are expected to become one.

To demand 'sense' is the hallmark of nonsense. Nature does not make sense. Nothing makes sense.