What is crucial to your survival as a race is not the redistribution of power and wealth within the prison but rather the destruction of the prison itself.

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'.

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.

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.

For the ancient Greeks, the ultimate test of the educational system was the moral and political quality of the students that it produced

Everything I do is kind of a lesson, even if I am the only person who learns it.

Keep the guests company, and mind your asses! Stay out of the hall before my chamber!

Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.

The greatest need of our age and of every age, the greatest need of every human heart, is to know the resources and sufficiency of God.

All you have to do is desire it, and if you desire it enough and understand why -- really know -- it will come.

But here's the worst part: the trick to life lies in hiding from those we hold most dear how much they mean to is; if not, we'd lose them.

He's not a lad that likes to stand on his feet.

When you're doing bad things, you just don't know whether you can conquer them or not. I found out how strong I could be when I was motivated, and I'm kind of proud of that.

An artist in 2014 who is thinking about album sales is either sadly deluded or has to make so many commercial compromises that it sort of takes the joy out of making music.