When we are young we are like a flowing river - and then we freeze.

Learning is more effective when it is an active rather than a passive process.

If you want truly to understand something, try to change it.

No research without action, no action without research.

A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat, but not too much, above his last achievement.

There is nothing so practical as a good theory.

Experience alone does not create knowledge.

Social action, just like physical action, is steered by perception.

If you want to learn about an organization, try to change it.

Every psychological event depends upon the state of the person and at the same time on the environment, although their relative importance is different in different cases

A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat but not too much above his last achievement. In this way he steadily raises his level of aspiration.

Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living.

The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.

Despite the slowness, the infidelity, the errors and sins it committed and might still commit against its members, the Church, trust me, has no other meaning and goal but to live and witness Jesus.

Your being born makes your parents God. You owe them your life, and they can control you. Then puberty makes you Satan, just because you want something better.

Painting is the art of hollowing a surface.

Sometimes you just don't like somebody

Now [in 2016] I have the highest turnout in the state of Minnesota. And Minnesota is the highest turnout state in the country.

Artists usually don't make all that much money, and they often keep their artistic hobby despite the money rather than due to it.

Most inventors and engineers I've met are like me. They're shy and they live in their heads. The very best of them are artists. And artists work best alone.

Snakes have no arms. That's why they don't wear vests.