If people want to compete for leadership of a religious group, they can compete in piety. A chilling thought. Or funny.

If you want to change the culture, you will have to start by changing the organization.

The history of the Church of Rome is a constant leakage of members into such breakaway cults, which go on splitting.

Enclave life becomes very tense, Even when they do elect a leader, the factions remain, with the threat of splitting off.

Our technological infrastructure alienates us from each other. No need to form a workplace community, everybody there will be out in a year or two, and so will you, looking for a better place.

Where there is dirt there is system. Dirt is the byproduct of a systematic ordering and classification of matter.

Hierarchy works well in a stable environment.

It seems true that the growth of science and secularism made organized Christianity feel under threat.

Inequality can have a bad downside, but equality, for its part, sure does get in the way of coordination.

The human body is always treated as an image of society.

Institutions have the pathetic megalomania of the computer whose whole vision of the world is its own program.

The reason many fail to joyfully proclaim Jesus Christ is because deep down they fail to joyfully adore Him

The evening that Al and I met became the night that we met. By the time we fell asleep at daybreak we were different people

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams and endeavours to live the life which he has imagined he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

If I had known what it would be like to have it all I might have been willing to settle for less.

Suddenly I'm not half the girl I used to be. There's a shadow hanging over me . . . From me to you out of my electric devil.

You can't dingleberry that! That's a flagrant misuse of the dingleberry!

You cannot take credit for your talents. It is what you do with them that counts.

The truth is, we [women] live like bats, or owls, labor like beasts, and die like worms.

Worrying is wasted time. Use the same energy for doing something about whatever worries you.

The unique ability to take decisive action while maintainign focus on the ultimate mission is what defines a true leader.