You know how to split atoms, how to send explorers to the moon, how to splice genes, but you don't know how people ought to live.

If the world is saved, it will not be saved by old minds with new programs but by new minds with no programs at all.

Indigenous people believe that Man belongs to the World; civilized people believe that the World belongs to Man.

If you can’t discover what’s keeping you in, the will to get out soon becomes confused and ineffectual - "Ishmael

The premise of the Taker story is 'the world belongs to man'. … The premise of the Leaver story is 'man belongs to the world'.

The world of the Takers is one vast prison, and except for a handful of Leavers scattered across the world, the entire human race is now inside that prison.

Don't try to drive the homeless into places we find suitable. Help them survive in places they find suitable.

There is no one right way to live.

[A]ny species that exempts itself from the rules of competition ends up destroying the community in order to support its own expansion.

Don't wait. Where do you expect to get by waiting? Doing is what teaches you. Doing is what leads to inspiration. Doing is what generates ideas. Nothing else, and nothing less.

No one species shall make the life of the world its own.' … That's one expression of the law. Here's another: 'The world was not made for any one species.

The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer.

If you are going to be underestimated by people who speak more rapidly, the temptation is to speak slowly and strategically and outwit them.

Asked, Who is the rich man? Epictetus replied, �He who is content.

The person I miss most is the one I could have been.

We are eternally linked not just to each other but our environment.

Now, the old man happened to be the Lord.

Inward solitude has outward manifestations. There is the freedom to be alone, not in order to be away from people but in order to hear the divine Whisper better.

The surest step toward joy in the morning is virtue in the evening.

I believe very confidently in the truth of Scripture, where it says that there is no authority, no power given to man except as given by God.

I love Bill Clinton. I think we should make him king. I'm talking the red robe, the turkey leg - everything.