There's nothing of any importance in life-except how well you do your work.

Whoever claims the right to redistribute the wealth produced by others is claiming the right to treat human beings as chattel.

You must be the kind of man who can get things done. But to get things done, you must love the doing, not the secondary consequences.

Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.

The greatest threat to mankind and civilization is the spread of the totalitarian philosophy. Its best ally is not the devotion of its followers but the confusion of its enemies. To fight it, we must understand it.

He stepped to the window and pointed to the skyscrapers of the city. He said that we had to extinguish the lights of the world, and when we would see the lights of New York go out, we would know that our job was done.

It's the hardest thing in the world - to do what we want. And it takes the greatest kinds of courage.