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.

Since there is no such entity as 'the public,' since the public is merely a number of individuals, the idea that 'the public interest' supersedes private interests and rights can have but one meaning: that the interests and rights of some individuals take precedence over the interests and rights of others.

The man-worshipers, in my sense of the term, are those who see man's highest potential and strive to actualize it. The man-haters are those who regard man as a helpless, depraved, contemptible creature-and struggle never to let him discover otherwise.

Living in a society, instead of on a desert island, does not relieve a man of the responsibility of supporting his own life.

The men of the press, who despised their own profession, did not know why they were enjoying it today. One of them, a young man with years of notorious success behind him and a cynical look of twice his age, said suddenly, 'I know what I'd like to be: I wish I could be a man who covers news!'

Definitions are the guardians of rationality, the first line of defense against the chaos of mental disintegration.

No man can use his brain to think for another.