From infancy onward, children are the most fantastic learners in the world.

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.

Your status has changed. Your Name is changed! You are a new creation.

You do not become outstanding by working on your weaknesses You become outstanding by focusing on your strenghts.

Psychoanalysis feeds on intensity, as though life were all flame and no ash.

Our intention is to clarify and modernize overtime pay rules.

Well, in some ways we're not successful at all. We're destroying our home. That's not a bit successful.

If you can't run with the big dogs, stay on the porch.

Regrettably, it has become clear that torture of detainees in United States custody is not limited to Abu Ghraib or even Iraq. Since Abu Ghraib, there have been increasing reports of torture.

I would not wish to marry someone who had already been married. It would be,' she opined, 'like having someone else break in one's own pony.

It is not altogether wrong to say that there is no such thing as a bad photograph - only less interesting, less relevant, less mysterious ones.