“If humanity does not opt for integrity we are through completely. It is absolutely touch and go. Each one of us could make the difference.”

“If success or failure of this planet and of human beings depended on how I am and what I do... HOW WOULD I BE? WHAT WOULD I DO?”

“I am a passenger on the spaceship Earth.”

“I just invent. Then I wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented.”

“Mistakes are great, the more I make the smarter I get.”

“It is essential that anyone reading this book know at the outset that the author is apolitical. I was convinced in 1927 that humanity's most fundamental survival problems could never be solved by politics.”

“Either war is obsolete or men are. ”

“Dear reader, traditional human power structures and their reign of darkness are about to be rendered obsolete.”

“I am convinced all of humanity is born with more gifts than we know. Most are born geniuses and just get de-geniused rapidly.”

“There is no joy equal to that of being able to work for all humanity and doing what you're doing well.”

“Specialization is in fact only a fancy form of slavery wherein the ‘expert’ is fooled into accepting a slavery by making him feel that he in turn is a socially and culturally preferred—ergo, highly secure—lifelong position.”

“Pollution is nothing but resources we're not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value.”

“God is a verb”

“How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.”

“Integrity is the essence of everything successful.”

“The universe is non-simultaneously apprehended”

“...primarily the individual is going to study at home.”

“Human beings were given a left foot and a right foot to make a mistake first to the left, then to the right, left again and repeat.”

“Every time man makes a new experiment he always learns more. He cannot learn less.”

“We as economic society are going to have to pay our whole population to go to school and pay it to stay at school.”

“The minute you begin to do what you really want to do, it's really a different kind of life.”

“I would say, then, that you are faced with a future in which education is going to be number one amongst the great world industries.”

“We are powerfully imprisoned by the terms in which we have been conducted to think.”

“When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty but when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong”

“It is new design by architects versus world revolution by political leadership.”

“The point is that racism is the product of tribalism and ignorance and both are falling victim to communications and world-around literacy”

“Human beings are the only creatures on the planet that tell time and think they have to earn a living.”

“Science is the attempt to set in order the facts of experience.”

“We are called to be the architects of the future, not its victims.”

“Get ready the greatest new educational facility at the approximate dynamic population center of the North American continent”

“I live on Earth at present, and I don't know what I am. I know that I am not a category. I am not a thing—a noun. I seem to be a verb, an evolutionary process—an integral function of the universe.”

“If you want to teach people a new way of thinking, don't bother trying to teach them. Instead, give them a tool, the use of which will lead to new ways of thinking.”

“Every child is born a genius.”

Pay your people the least possible and you'll get from them the same.

People who never get carried away should be.

Victory is sweetest when you've know defeat. Ability will never catch up with the demand for it. You pay for everything, even including speaking your mind (with or without one). Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.

I think legislative assaults on motorcyclists are totally emotionally, disproportionate and totally unfair....they're instigated and implemented by people who know nothing about motorcycling, but have a prejudice. It's easy to curb the freedoms of others when you see no immediate impact on your own.

People who stare deserve the looks they get.

The richest person in the world - in fact. All the riches in the world - couldn't provide you with anything like the endless, incredible loot available at your local library. You can measure the awareness, the breadth and the wisdom of a civilization, a nation, a people by the priority given to preserving these repositories of all that we are, all that we were, or will be.

When young, you're shocked by the number of people who turn out to have feet of clay. Older, you're surprised by the number of people who don't.

Some people as a result of adversity are sadder, wiser, kinder, more human. Most of us are better, though, when things go better.

People who say that money isn't the most important thing in the world are usually broke.

It ticks me no end when people get ticked off at those of us who comment audibly and in print on events and problems. That's what we're paid for. Why clutter up your mind with a bunch of facts that might inhibit the solve-ability of us who must express an opinion? After all, all the world cries out for a solution to its problems, and we supply them right and left. Come to think of it, it's we who should be giving our deplorers and detractors the blast; because 99% of the time they don't do as we say.

I think the terror most people are concerned with is the IRS.

The top people of the biggest companies are, surprisingly, often the nicest ones in their company I'm not sure, though, if they got there because they were good guys or that they're now good guys because they can afford to be.

Retirement kills more people than hard work ever did.

People who can’t see without glasses should wear them.

The dumbest people I know are those who know it all.

More often than not, things and people are as they appear.

There are a handful of companies who understand all successful business operations come down to three basic principles; People---Product---Profit. Without top people, you cannot do much with the other two.