In the crowd, herd, or gang, it is a mass-mind that operates-which is to say, a mind without subtlety, a mind without compassion, a mind, finally, uncivilized.

Authority has every reason to fear the skeptic, for authority can rarely survive in the face of doubt.

Only by being permitted to experience the consequences of his actions will the child acquire a sense of responsibility; and within the limits marked by the demands of his safety this must be done.

Schools vast factories for the manufacture of robots.

Mass Man, the universal psychopath, is born when the individual ego is weakened to the point at which it loses separate identity and is forced, for security, to merge with the mass.

Conformity, humility, acceptance with these coins we are to pay our fares to paradise.

It is characteristic of all movements and crusades that the psychopathic element rises to the top.

As a dimension of man, rebellion actually defines him.

What a person wills and not what they know determines their worth or unworth, power or impotence, happiness or unhappiness.

It is in solitude that the works of hand, heart and mind are always conceived, and in solitude that individuality must be affirmed.

Non-conformism is the major, perhaps the only, sin of our time.

Who cares for Algebra?Who delights in solving math?I only want to live my lifeAlong the creative path.

There is a way to live the big of giving thanks in all things. It is this: to give thanks in this one small thing. The moments will add up.

Totalitarianism surpasses autocracy.

Now to explore the limits of the one competitor above everyone else you've always loved to face: Steve Prefontaine.

Forks are absurd, he scoffed. They insult your food. They make it think you're killing it twice.

The drama, like the symphony, does not teach or prove anything.

It's the ultimate conceptual artwork. I took a piece of metal and just painted an image of a stop sign on it - a four-by-four-foot stop sign.

I still feel like a weird kid who is about to take a punch in the face. So, I think it's permanent.

No healthy Christian ever chooses suffering; he chooses God's will, as Jesus did, whether it means suffering or not.

The preparations are what they are. We're here. The storm is coming. We are as best prepared as we can be as the eye of the storm approaches.