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

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.

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 world must live. We are only one species among billions. The gods don't love us any more than they love spiders or bears or whales or water lilies.

Faithfulness imparts God's reason for all circumstances. No matter what the world says, losing is no longer an option.

To be a prophet, Knox emphasizes, requires living in and looking at the present, at what is really going on around you.

up upIf someone deprives you of history deprives you of your future

No amount of study or learning will make a man a leader unless he has the natural qualities of one.

There are ends, occasionally, with projects. That happens. But they are natural dead ends. It's usually the outside situation that demands an ending. I never really settle for one.

If you want to get along with somebody, let them be right, and it will last longer.

When you are winning too much, sometimes you think you should never lose again. I am learning to lose.

Scientists should be doing a better job of guarding their own reputations and of the general scientific community.

Abortion is either OK or it's not.

So you would rather suffer an injustice than do an injustice?