- "A house can have integrity, just like a person, and just as seldom."
- "People were his protection against people. Howard Roark had no sense of people."
- "One can't love man without hating most of the creatures who pretend to bear his name."
- "Worry is a waste of emotional reserve."
- "There is a stage of worship which makes the worshiper himself an object of reverence."
- "Every form of happiness is private. Our greatest moments are personal, self-motivated, not to be touched."
- "Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men."
- "Whatever their future, at the dawn of their lives, men seek a noble vision of man's nature and of life's potential."
- "His face was closed like a safety vault; things locked in safety vaults are valuable; men did not care to feel that."
- "Show me your achievement - and the knowledge will give me courage for mine.
- "She could not have reached this white serenity except as the sum of all the colors, of all the violence she had known."
- "They talked quietly, with a feeling of companionship such as that of an old married couple; as if he had possessed her body, and the wonder of it had long since been consumed, and nothing remained but an untroubled intimacy."
- "I am a man who does not exist for others.
- "...the person who loves everybody and feels at home everywhere is the true hater of mankind. He expects nothing of men, so no form of depravity can outrage him."
- "I have come here to say that I do not recognize anyone's right to one minute of my life. . . . It had to be said. The world is perishing from an orgy of self-sacrificing."
