“I’m a man who wears many hats. Some of them are furry.”

“A woman wears many hats in one lifetime -- why shouldn't one of them be a crown?”

“He was a man who always gave the impression of wearing a top hat, even when he was not.”

“If you want to preach, young man, you ought to wear some kind of clerical costume so people would be warned. In my mind, there are too many unpleasant things in life as it is without creating still more of them. I hate le misérabilisme. I’m in the shining business, not the darkening business.”

“There is many a monster who wears the form of a man; it is better of the two to have the heart of a man and the form of a monster. ”

“They move past you and they wear hats and they carry bundles. But that's not the substance of them. The substance of them is hatred for any man who loves his work. That's the only kind they fear. I don't know why. You're opening yourself up, Roark, for each and every one of them.""But I never notice the people in the streets.”