I keep as far from children as possible. I don't like the size of them; the scale is all wrong. The head tends to be too big for the bodies and the hands and feet are a disaster and they keep falling into things, and the nakedness of their bad character.

USA is suffering between imperialists and anti-imperialists. That is the situation. The most powerful country in the world is on its way back to the Stone Age.

All I want is that Americans still be able to read the alphabet in a hundred years. I am not very ambitious.

To a man, ornithologists are tall, slender, and bearded so that they can stand motionless for hours, imitating kindly trees, as they watch for birds.

Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.

The important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself.

Miss Rand now tells us that what we have thought was right is really wrong. The lesson should have read: One for one and none for all.