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

That which is not worth contemplating in life, is not worth recreating in art.

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

What is man? He's just a collection of chemicals with delusions of grandeur.

The more neurotic and evasive a person is, the shorter the range of his interests.

Peter Keating: "Do you always have to have a purpose? Do you always have to be so damn serious? Can't you ever do things without reason, just like everybody else? You're so serious, so old. Everything's important with you. Everything's great, significant in some way, every minute, even when you keep still. Can't you ever be comfortable-and unimportant?" | Howard Roark: "No."

An attempt to achieve the good by force is like an attempt to provide a man with a picture gallery at the price of cutting out his eyes.