Better to complete a small task well, than to do much imperfectly.

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire emotion and knowledge.

Science is nothing but perception.

Reality is created by the mind. We can change our reality by changing our mind.

If you do not take an interest in the affairs of your government, then you are doomed to live under the rule of fools.

A wise man speaks because he has something to say; a fool because he has to say something.

No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth.

Don't force your children into your ways, for they were created for a time different from your own.

Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.

Reality is created by the mind, we can change our reality by changing our mind.

Enjoy life. There's plenty of time to be dead. Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.

Life doesn't just happen to you

The word of God gives comfort.

Great ambition, the desire of real superiority, of leading and directing, seems to be altogether peculiar to man, and speech is the great instrument of ambition.

The Plutocracy's insatiable hunger for pixelated information is enough to put a bulimic Pac-Man to shame

Not only do we have a right to be happy, we have an obligation to be happy because our happiness has an effect on everyone around us.

Perhaps I should not have been a fisherman, he thought. But that was the thing that I was born for.

Ive always been ambitious to be very good at what I do.

Some experiences are mis-educative. Any experience is mis-educative that has the effect of arresting or distorting the growth of further experience.

First-class travel, provided one hasn't to pay for it oneself, is the most insidiously addictive of life's luxuries.

Keetje Kuipers' poems are daring, formally beautiful and driven by rich imagery and startling ideas.