Language was a huge expansion of that capacity to deal with information.

Simple, clear purpose and principles give rise to complex intelligent behavior. Complex rules and regulations give rise to simple stupid behavior.

Making good judgments when one has complete data, facts, and knowledge is not leadership - it's bookkeeping

Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it.

The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out.

The essence of community, its heart and soul, is the non-monetary exchange of value; things we do and share because we care for others, and for the good of the place.

If you don't understand that you work for your mislabeled 'subordinates,' then you know nothing of leadership. You know only tyranny.

An organization, no matter how well designed, is only as good as the people who live and work in it.

With the advent of genetic engineering the time required for the evolution of new species may literally collapse.

The most abundant, least used, and most abused resource in the world is human spirit and ingenuity.

Heaven is purpose, principle, and people. Purgatory is paper and procedure. Hell is rules and regulations.

Your perception of life is determined by experiences you allow take its abode in your thought pattern

Cynicism is often seen as a rebellious attitude in western popular culture, but in reality, our cynicism advances the desires of the powerful: cynicism is obedience.

Although she was giddy with exhaustion, sleep was a lover who refused to be touched....

Everything is research.

Not only the right thing is the right thing, but doing the right out of the right motives is the right thing.

To good and true love, fear is forever affixed.

I fear those big words, Stephen said, which make us so unhappy.

I love Neutrogena's Makeup Remover Cleansing Wipes. They get all my makeup off and are really moisturizing.

I am in favour of capital punishment if the execution of the sentence is immediate. The purpose of the death penalty is to send out a message to society.