It does not matter that only a few in each generation will grasp and achieve the full reality of man's proper stature-and the rest will betray it. It is those few that move the world and give life its meaning-and it is those few that I have always sought to address. The rest are no concern of mine; it is not me or "The Fountainhead" that they will betray: it is their own souls.

A house can have integrity, just like a person.

Don't ever get angry at a man for stating the truth.

Through the dry phases of calculations in her mind, she noticed that she did have time to feel something: it was the hard, exhilarating pleasure of action.

Integrity is the recognition of the fact that you cannot fake your consciousness, just as honesty is the recognition of the fact that you cannot fake existence.

every man is free to rise as far as he's able or willing, but the degree to which he thinks determines the degree to which he'll rise.

Freedom (n.): To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.