Man cannot demand that others give up their lives to make him happy.

The government was set to protect man from criminals, and the Constitution was written to protect man from the government.

The most depraved type of human being ... (is) the man without a purpose.

Productiveness is your acceptance of morality, your recognition of the fact that you choose to live-that productive work is the process by which man's consciousness controls his existence, a constant process of acquiring knowledge and shaping matter to fit one's purpose, of translating an idea into physical form, of remaking the earth in the image of one's values-that all work is creative work if done by a thinking mind.

There is nothing wrong in helping other people, if and when they are worthy of the help and you can afford to help them.

My philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute.

But what man does out of despair, is not necessarily a key to his character. I have always thought that the real key is in that which he seeks for his enjoyment.