Far better than a precise plan is a clear sense of direction and compelling beliefs. And that lies within you. The question is, how do you evoke it?

Simple, clear purpose and principles give rise to complex intelligent behavior. Complex rules and regulations give rise to simple stupid behavior.

Making good judgments when one has complete data, facts, and knowledge is not leadership - it's bookkeeping

Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it.

The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out.

The essence of community, its heart and soul, is the non-monetary exchange of value; things we do and share because we care for others, and for the good of the place.

If you don't understand that you work for your mislabeled 'subordinates,' then you know nothing of leadership. You know only tyranny.

An organization, no matter how well designed, is only as good as the people who live and work in it.

With the advent of genetic engineering the time required for the evolution of new species may literally collapse.

The most abundant, least used, and most abused resource in the world is human spirit and ingenuity.

Heaven is purpose, principle, and people. Purgatory is paper and procedure. Hell is rules and regulations.

I can do nothing without His help. Oh, Lord, what ignorance thinking everything was wealth.

The book-learned preacher who carries the badge of authority, is by no means religious.

Being a divorcee in a small town is a little like playing Monopoly

Simplicity, it seems, has always been wasted on those who simply cannot appreciate it

What does it mean to regret when you have no choice?

To withdraw myself from myself has ever been my sole, my entire, my sincere motive in scribbling at all.

Monarchy degenerates into tyranny, aristocracy into oligarchy, and democracy into savage violence and chaos.

To be over much facetious is the accomplishment of courtiers and blemish of the wise.

Shun, as you would the plague, a cleric who from being poor has become wealthy, or who, from being nobody has become a celebrity.