To teach a man how he may learn to grow independently, and for himself, is perhaps the greatest service that one man can do another.

The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them.

Never retreat. Never explain. Get it done and let them howl.

Doubt comes in at the window when inquiry is denied at the door.

You've got to be success minded. You've got to feel that things are coming your way when you're out selling; otherwise, you won't be able to sell anything.

Give the clergy your sympathy; don't give them anything else.

We cannot seek or attain health, wealth, learning, justice or kindness in general. Action is always specific, concrete, individualized, unique.

There is a great deal of hard lying in the world; especially among people whose characters are above suspicion.

All translation is a compromise - the effort to be literal and the effort to be idiomatic.

It is most important in this world to be pushing, but it is fatal to seem so.

If you don't find a God by five o'clock this afternoon you must leave the college.

I love Carrie Fisher, and it would be amazing to carry on her legacy.

All the world loves a lover, but how it does laugh at his love letters.

Private capitalism makes a steam engine; State capitalism makes pyramids.

That endless book, the newspaper, is our national glory.

You have to have the definition of what you're trying to do across the system.

The gardener does not make a plant grow. The job of a gardener is to create optimal conditions for growth

Intelligence will become more and more collective; innovation and order will become more and more bottom-up.

A shaman is someone who has a wound that will not heal. He sits by the side of the road with his open wound exposed.

When I bought my farm, I did not know what a bargain I had in the bluebirds, daffodils and thrushes; as little did I know what sublime mornings and sunsets I was buying.

The world can, in effect, get along without natural resources, so exhaustion is just an event, not a catastrophe.