Quotes on Howard Roark

Toohey: "Mr. Roark, we're alone here. Why don't you tell me what you think of me? In any words you wish. No one will hear us." Roark: "But I don't think of you.

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

But I don't think of you. - Howard Roark

The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it.

Peter Keating: "Do you always have to have a purpose? Do you always have to be so damn serious? Can't you ever do things without reason, just like everybody else? You're so serious, so old. Everything's important with you. Everything's great, significant in some way, every minute, even when you keep still. Can't you ever be comfortable-and unimportant?" | Howard Roark: "No."

Never ask people. Not about your work. Don't you know what you want? How can you stand it, not to know?

To sell your soul is the easiest thing in the world. That's what everybody does every hour of his life. If I asked you to keep your soul - would you understand why that's much harder?

Thousands of years ago the first man discovered how to make fire. He was probably burnt at the stake he'd taught his brothers to light, but he left them a gift they had not conceived and he lifted darkness from the face of the Earth.

My dear fellow, who will let you?" "That's not the point. The point is, who will stop me?