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

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.

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

If you think you can't, why think

today, live your life to the fullest because tomorrow is a mystery, don't enter it with regrets

I was able to actually combine dance and acting, which was a dream come true.

My wife is one of the best wimin on this Continent, altho' she isn't always gentle as a lamb with mint sauce.

The variety of all things forms a pleasure.

My parents are not theatrical people, but my dad took me to the theater.

Maybe people don't know I'm a news junkie? I watch and I tape a breadth of everything that's happening in the world, and that fascinates me.

You can cuss out colonialism, imperialism, and all other kinds of ism, but it's hard for you to cuss that dollarism. When they drop those dollars on you, your soul goes.

the most compelling reason for reforming our system is that the system is in no one's interest. It is a suicide machine.

No! I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be: am an attendant lord, one that will do to swell a progress, start a scene or two, advise the prince.

I used to go outside every day and invent these elaborate worlds and scenarios in my head, and when I grew too old for playing pretend, I started to write everything down instead.