Teacher

To say 'I love you' one must know first how to say the 'I.'

Anything may be betrayed, anyone may be forgiven, but not those who lack the courage of their own greatness.

It does not matter that only a few in each generation will grasp and achieve the full reality of man's proper stature—and the rest will betray it. It is those few that move the world and give life its meaning—and it is those few that I have always sought to address. The rest are no concern of mine; it is not me or "The Fountainhead" that they will betray: it is their own souls.

You must be the kind of man who can get things done. But to get things done, you must love the doing, not the secondary consequences.

She knew she could not have reached this white serenity except as the sum of all the colors, of all the violence she had known.

I would step in the way of a bullet if it were aimed at my husband. It is not self-sacrifice to die protecting that which you value: If the value is great enough, you do not care to exist without it.

Don't help me or serve me, but let me see it once, because I need it. Don't work for my happiness, my brothers—show me yours—show me that it is possible—show me your achievement—and the knowledge will give me the courage for mine. Mallory (the young artist) to Roark in "The Fountainhead"

The secrets of this earth are not for all men to see, but only for those who will seek them.

"There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil."

To say 'I love you' one must know first how to say the 'I'.

You know what you are actually in love with? Integrity. The impossible. The clean, consistent, reasonable, self-faithful, the all-of-one-style, like a work of art.