To ask a politician to lead us is to ask the tail of a dog to lead the dog.

You cannot change how someone thinks, but you can give them a tool to use which will lead them to think differently.

In order to change an existing paradigm you do not struggle to try and change the problematic model. You create a new model and make the old one obsolete.

There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.

Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value.

Mistakes are great, the more I make the smarter I get.

If you want to teach people a new way of thinking, don't bother trying to teach them. Instead, give them a tool, the use of which will lead to new ways of thinking.

We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.

You can rest assured that if you devote your time and attention to the highest advantage of others, the Universe will support you, always and only in the nick of time.

Love is metaphysical gravity.

Integrity is the essence of everything successful.

It is a curiously moving experience, to hear 350 sailors uttering the words "Oh shit!" in eleven different languages.

Everybody looks a little crazy if you're looking close enough and if you can't look that close, then you don't really love them.

I think the election of Donald Trump, if you want to call it an election, was unimaginable to most people, which is part of how it happened.

If there were a rehab for curiosity; I'd be in it.

We used to moralize; today we normalize, and performance anxiety is the secular version of our old religious guilt.

Our stewardship of the Earth is brief. We owe it to those who follow to keep that in perspective, to be responsible passengers along the way.

Germ theory, which secularized infectious disease, had a side effect: it sacralized epidemiology.

If you have no major purpose, you are drifting toward certain failure.

Jesus Christ was the biggest blight on the human race, he was. And all them socialists and communists - second rate Christianity.

The reality is that you are the spirit. The rest is a myth.