But why? Why do you need prophets to tell you how you ought to live? Why do you need anyone to tell you how you 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.

Man is nothing else but what he purposes, he exists only in so far as he realizes himself, he is therefore nothing else but the sum of his actions, nothing else but what his life is.

The ink in the pen that writes success stories is "FOCUS"...

The tougher the problem, the sweeter the victory

Rainbows introduce us to reflections of different beautiful possibilities so we never forget that pain and grief are not the final options in life.

I'm a religious person. I honestly believe we will see each other in heaven someday.

The path that leads to truth is littered with the bodies of the ignorant.

I think the industry can probably self-correct without regulation, but I don't believe an individual outlet can regulate itself.

I lived on rum, I tell you. It's been meat and drink, and man and wife, to me.

Elvis is bound to be dead. Look at all the vultures in his vicinity.

I will not rule out anything. I don't speculate on my own future. I'll wait and see what happens.