Leave it better than you found it. |

It is when our hearts are stirred that we become most aware of what they contain. |

Leaders who don't listen will eventually be surrounded by people who have nothing to say. |

Standards are like toothbrushes, everybody agrees you should have one, but no one wants to use yours. |

L'arbre est devant la fenêtre du salon. Je l'interroge chaque matin: Quoi de neuf aujourd'hui? La réponse vient sans tarder, donnée par des centaines de feuilles: Tout. |

A man can be destroyed but not defeated. |

The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-cleansing. Not so with technology. |

I, for one, hope that youth will again revolt and again demoralize the dead weight of conformity that now lies upon us. |

Ours is the age which is proud of machines that think and suspicious of men who try to. |

I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong. |

The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt. |

Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness. |

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric. |

In the New Earth we are creating, we need lusty compassion and ecstatic duty, ingenious love and insurrectionary beauty. We need radical curiosity and reverent pranks, voracious listening and ferocious thanks. |

Never wrestle with a pig. You both get dirty and the pig enjoys it. |

A true leader has the confidence to stand alone, the courage to make tough decisions, and the compassion to listen to the needs of others. He does not set out to be a leader, but becomes one by the equality of his actions and the integrity of his intent. |

The time it takes to make a decision increases as the number of alternatives increases. |

In all beginnings dwells a Magic Force. |

Science arose from poetry... When times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends. |

The whole life of the individual is nothing but the process of giving birth to himself; indeed, we should be fully born, when we die. |

Design to express, not to impress. |

Talent is helpful in writing, but guts are absolutely necessary. |

A religious awakening which does not awaken the sleeper to love has roused him in vain. |

Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are the natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted, and slightly savage if he is to sustain and complete an undertaking. |