Every aspect of Western culture needs a new code of ethics - a rational ethics - as a precondition of rebirth.

There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist.

Government 'help' to business is just as disastrous as government persecution... the only way a government can be of service to national prosperity is by keeping its hands off.

I never found beauty in longing for the impossible and never found the possible to be beyond my reach.

Our dearest one. Fear nothing of the forest. There is no danger in solitude. We have no need of our brothers. Let us forget their good and our evil, let us forget all things save that we are together and that there is joy as a bond between us. Give us your hand. Look ahead. It is our own world, Golden One, a strange, unknown world, but our own.

Roark smiled, "Gail, if this boat were sinking, I'd give my life to save you. Not because it's any kind of duty. Only because I like you, for reasons and standards of my own. I could die for you. But I couldn't and wouldn't live for you.

Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness.