Artillery conquers and infantry occupies.

All things are difficult before they are easy.

We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.

You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.

You cannot change how someone thinks, but you can give them a tool to use which will lead them to think differently.

In order to change an existing paradigm you do not struggle to try and change the problematic model. You create a new model and make the old one obsolete.

There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.

If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it.

Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value.

Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.

Mistakes are great, the more I make the smarter I get.

A person without regrets is called a corpse.

And the problems come... one after another... an another... that's what government wants... problems.

If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.

So far as the economic condition of society and the general mode of living and thinking were concerned, I might claim to have lived in the time of the American Revolution.

Remind yourself of your reasons for living. You have a future worth enduring for, and you deserve to have a renewed sense of purpose and pleasure in your life.

Any institution which does not suppose the people good, and the magistrate corruptible, is evil.

The cold passion for truth hunts in no pack.

I consider myself more of a visual comedian than a physical one.

I get a lot of flack from critics that my comedies are all over the place, my dramas are all over the place, they're schizophrenic - as if I don't know that!

The neglect of the humanities in present-day education is doubtless not a cause but a symptom of an age.