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.

Style is not an end in itself, it is only a means to an end - the means of telling a story.

I do not seek the good of others as a sanction for my right to exist, nor do I recognize the good of others as a justification for their seizure of my property or their destruction of my life.

Fight for the value of your person. Fight for the virtue of your pride. Fight for the essence of that which is man: for his sovereign rational mind. Fight with the radiant certainty and the absolute rectitude of knowing that yours is the Morality of Life and that yours is the battle for any achievement, any value, any grandeur, any goodness, any joy that has ever existed on this earth

Romantic art is always stylized: the better the art, the cleaner and more attractive and intelligent the stylization.

No concept man forms is valid unless he integrates it without contradiction into the sum of his knowledge.

I came here to say that I do not recognize anyone's right to one minute of my life.