“News is something somebody doesn't want printed; all else is advertising.”

“It is a good thing that women are so easily manipulated. Otherwise, most of us wouldn't be here.”

“Any man who has the brains to think and the nerve to act for the benefit of the people of the country is considered a radical by those who are content with stagnation and willing to endure disaster.”

“A politician will do anything to keep his job -- even become a patriot.”

“I wonder what I’m going to be when I grow up,’ Rob asked himself.‘Well, not a film star,’ Mike said. ‘And not an all-in wrestler. Why don’t you be a drunk? You don’t need any talents for that.’‘It’s got to be something in your blood,’ Rob said. It was his view that all history was a matter of blood.‘That’s a lot of bullshit,’ Mike said. ‘Hell, Australia was built by people who didn’t know who their grandparents were. You can be anything you want to be, and you ought to be what you want to be, not what your grandpa was.’‘Well, what are you going to be?’ Rob demanded… ‘A drunk,’ said Mike. ‘I haven’t got any talents.”

“Time is at once the most valuable and the most perishable of all our possessions.”

“All of us have two educations; one which we receive from others; another and more valuable; which we give ourselves.”