The only sin is pride.

The purpose of life is to contribute in some way to making things better.

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.

Fear not the path of Truth for the lack of People walking on it.

The first sign of tyranny is government's complicity in privatizing the commons for private gain.

Religion is a salve for confusion and misdirection.

While communism is the control of business by government, fascism is the control of government by business.

The sharpest criticism often goes hand in hand with the deepest idealism and love of country.

The most patriotic thing you can do is to take care of the environment and try to live sustainably.

You're happiest while you're making the greatest contribution.

Corporate polluters, their phony think tanks and political toadies like to marginalize environmentalists as tree huggers, or radicals. But there is nothing radical about clean air or water.

With mind distracted, never thinking, "Death is coming, "To slave away on the pointless business of mundane life, And then to come out empty--it is a tragic error. (116)trans by Robert Thurman

Remember the Morning Star, ” he enjoined. But I didn’t tell him about Tegg, whose face was the starry void itself...

Every small, unselfish action nudges the world into a better path. An accumulation of small acts can change the world.

You are never a failure when you learn from a mistake and try again ~ Levon Poe

The best way to deal with bureaucrats is with stealth and sudden violence.

As countries embrace mass higher education, the cost of maintaining universities increases dramatically relative to an elite system.

I agree that two times two makes four is an excellent thing; but if we are dispensing praise, then two times two makes five is sometimes a most charming little thing as well.

Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time; he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul but his life.

One original thought is worth the sum total of human knowledge, because it advances the sum total of human knowledge by that one original thought.

Silence does not equal patriotism. Obedience is not the American way.