“I would die for you, but i wouldn't live for you.”

“I could die for you. But I couldn't, and wouldn't, live for you.”

“Roark smiled, "Gail, if this boat were sinking, I'd give my life to save you. Not because it's any kind of duty. Only because I like you, for reasons and standards of my own. I could die for you. But I couldn't and wouldn't live for you.”

“I take no pride in hopeless longing; I wouldn't hold a stillborn aspiration. I'd want to have it, to make it, to live it.”

“You see, I love you. And love is exception-making. If you were in love you’d want to be broken, trampled, dominated, because that’s the impossible, the inconceivable for you in your relations with people. That would be the one gift, the great exception you’d want to offer the man you loved. But it wouldn't be easy for you.”

“The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.”

“If you know that this life is all that you have, wouldn't you make the most of it?”