Happiness is not to be achieved at the command of emotional whims.

This god, this one word: I.

There's nothing of any importance in life — except how well you do your work. Nothing. Only that. Whatever else you are, will come from that. It's the only measure of human value.

I got the idea [for Anthem's theme] in my school days, in Soviet Russia, when I heard all the vicious attacks on individualism, and asked myself what the world would be like if men lost the word 'I.'

Many words have been granted me, and some are wise, and some are false, but only three are holy: "I will it!

The code of competence is the only system of morality that's on a gold standard.

Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.