But our minds are bound to the yardstick of yesterday, today and tomorrow, and with that yardstick we try to inquire into the unknown, to measure that which is not measurable.

With a little faith in themselves people, people can do miraculous things. But without it, they have a really tough time.

He sees those tears in your eyes. He knows the desire of your heart. And you will hear from Him-just in time to take the next step.

I'm sometimes scared of everything that has happened to us. We didn't think Desilu Productions would grow so big. We merely wanted to be together and have two children.

When the good Lord put a burden on his heart, he listened.

There is no conflict of interests among men, neither in business nor in trade nor in their most personal desires—if they omit the irrational from their view of the possible and destruction from their view of the practical?

The shortest distance between two points is not a straight line—it's a middleman. And the more middlemen, the shorter.

Do not expect consistency. Everything is a contradiction of everything else. Nothing exists but contradictions.

Reason is your means of survival — so that for you, who are a human being, the question 'to be or not to be' is the question 'to think or not to think..'.

Thought - he told himself quietly - is a weapon one uses in order to act. No action was possible. Thought is the tool by which one makes a choice. No choice was left to him. Thought sets one's purpose and the way to reach it. In the matter of his life being torn piece by piece out of him, he was to have no voice, no purpose, no way, no defense.

Have you always liked being Howard Roark?" Roark smiled. The smile was amused, astonished, involuntarily contemptuous.

The audacity of hope! I still remember my grandmother, singing in the house, 'There's a bright side somewhere Ãƒ¢Ã¢'¬Ã‚¦ don't rest till you find it Ãƒ¢Ã¢'¬Ã‚¦.'" "That's right!" "The audacity of hope!