Tell me what a person finds sexually attractive and I will tell you their entire philosophy of life. Show me the person they sleep with and I will tell you their valuation of themselves.

No happy person can be quite so impervious to pain (Gail Wynand to Dominique Francon)

Truth is the recognition of reality; reason, man's only means of knowledge, is his only standard of truth.

But Aristotle's philosophy was the intellect's Declaration of Independence.

People are not embracing collectivism because they have accepted bad economics. They are accepting bad economics because they have embraced collectivism.

I take no pride in hopeless longing; I wouldn't hold a stillborn aspiration. I'd want to have it, to make it, to live it.

"You were not born to be a second-hander." Howard Roark to Gail Wynand in "The Fountainhead"