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.

Thinking men cannot be ruled; ambitious men do not stagnate.

This is the age othe common man, they tell us-a title which any man may claim to the extent osuch distinction as he has managed not to achieve.

The alleged short-cut to knowledge, which is faith, is only a short-circuit destroying the mind

I am not the means to any end others may wish to accomplish. I am not a tool for their use. I am not a servant of their needs. I am not a bandage for their wounds, I am not a sacrifice on their altars.

A story is an end in itself. It is not written to teach, sell, explain or destroy anything. It is not written even to entertain. It is written as a man is born - an organic whole, dictated only by its own laws and its own necessity - an end in itself, not a means to an end.

Don't bother to examine a folly-ask yourself only what it accomplishes.