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.

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'.

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.

The world must live. We are only one species among billions. The gods don't love us any more than they love spiders or bears or whales or water lilies.

If Entrepreneurship was easy, the term would have been easier to pronounce too!

Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.

I prefer the earlier birth control techniques, which ranged from the delicious (using honey as a spermicide) to the aerobic (jumping backward seven times after coitus).

I like playing dress-up, and I love pretty jewels, but for me, being a movie star would be a very dangerous place.

Slow and steady wins the race, and I believe in paying your dues.

Man owes his success to his creativity. No one doubts the need for it. It is most useful in good times and essential in bad.

Everyday happiness means you can't wait to come home, because the soup is hot.

It takes falling down a bunch of times before you start running.

Like with Berle, he was always trying to steal the scene, get a little extra.

Abandon all remorse; On horror's head horrors accumulate.