To say ‘I love you’ one must first know how to say the ‘I.’ The meaning of the ‘I’ is an independent, self-sufficient entity that does not exist for the sake of any other person. A person who exists only for the sake of his loved one is not an independent entity, but a spiritual parasite. The love of a parasite is worth nothing.

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

There must be only three supreme values which govern a person's life: Reason, Purpose, and Self-esteem. Reason, as his only tool of knowledge--Purpose, as his choice of the happiness which that tool must proceed to achieve--Self-esteem, as his inviolate certainty that his mind is competent to think and his person is worthy of happiness, which means: is worthy of living. These three values imply and require all of man's virtues, and all his virtues pertain to the relation of existence and consciousness: rationality, independence, integrity, honesty, justice, productiveness, pride.

The age of the skyscraper is gone. This is the age of the housing project. Which is always a prelude to the age of the cave.

to rest one's case on faith means to concede that reason is on the side of one's enemies- that one has no rational arguments to offer.

But I don't think of you. - Howard Roark

I agree that [marriage] should be treated like a business deal. But every business deal has to have its own terms and its own kind of currency.