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

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.

If you think you can't, why think

Human efforts to avoid or overcome death are always doomed to disappointment.

An idea whose time has come cannot be stopped by any army or any government

We're fragile things, Harb. It doesn't look like it but we are. We're here one minute, and just like that, we're gone. The Peacemakers (The Nemesis Engines)

There is within me a knot of cruelty borne by the stream of love, much as our blood sometimes bears the seed of our destruction ...

I should like to see any kind of a man distinguishable from a gorilla that some good and even pretty woman could not shape a husband out of.

If I didn't believe in what I'm doing, I'd rather go to work in a dime store.

And thereby make ourselves, as it were, the lords and masters of nature.

I didn't set out to be famous; if I'd wanted that, I would have gone on Big Brother.

It doesn't stop. It really doesn't stop. It's the way I live every single day. I don't do anything else. I have no other interest other than music. At all.

Egypt has suffered more ordeals than the other countries to get where it is.