To take command, one must first create the illusion that command is already yours.

You must immerse yourself in your work. You have to fall in love with your work … You must dedicate your life to mastering your skill. That’s the secret of success.

Money without meaning is meaningless

The diffusion of a universalist culture and of a pedagogy of peace appears more than ever to be the path that we must follow for the salvation of all nations on earth.

Only twice I let people talk me out of good ideas.

Roughly speaking, I think it's accurate to say that a corporate elite of managers and owners governs the economy and the political system as well, at least in very large measure.

It is those who have enough but not too much who are the happiest.

We, alone on earth, can rebel against the tyranny of the selfish replicators.

Words are the counters of wise men, but the money of fools.

A land may be said to be discovered the first time a European, presumably an Englishman, sets foot on it.

If you build it, he will come.