We are at that very point in time when a 400-year old age is rattling in its death bed and another is struggling to be born.

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.

I could feel the warmth of his presence as if a soft blanket had been wrapped around my soul, around my heart. It held me and protected me. It sheltered me and I knew I wasn’t alone anymore.

In the morning sow thy seed, and in the evening withhold not thine hand: for thou know not whether shall prosper, either this or that, or whether they both shall be alike good.

There are no right of wrong answers in goal setting. What works for you?

I've never known any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.

Get some sleep, Secretary General, get some sleep. Revolution can wait till the morning.

A book should be luminous not voluminous.

We've all got strange things about us and Lynch picks those things up.

Let us not ask for miracles, let us not ask for concern with what is good for the country of him who comes as a stranger to make his fortune and leave afterwards.

He who would write heroic poems should make his whole life a heroic poem.

After so many years of whispery, DIY vocals, there's this new generation of voices that are really starting to burst through the seams.