If you're afraid that books might change someone's thinking, you're not afraid of books, you're afraid of thinking. |

American leaders - eternally proving this place to be a land of cowards built by slaves on the bones of indigenous peoples. |

The World is a book and those who do not travel read only one page. |

We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality. |

I have noticed that even those who assert that everything is predestined and that we can change nothing about it still look both ways before they cross the street. |

The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance. It is the illusion of knowledge. |

By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest. |

For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them. |

If I only have a hammer, I treat all problems as though they were a nail. |

The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another. |

The great aim of education is not knowledge but action. |

Self-sufficiency is the greatest of all wealth. |

It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters. |

A man cannot directly choose his circumstances, but he can choose his thoughts, and so indirectly, yet surely, shape his circumstances. |

If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you and you'll never learn. |

A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory. |

Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time. |

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

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. |

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. |

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. |

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