Our schools are much like our prisons: they disappoint us because they only do what they're designed to do, and it annoys us that they don't do something else!

In fact, of course, there is no secret knowledge; no one knows anything that can't be found on a shelf in the public library.

You shouldn't have to settle for rabbits if what you want is deer

And every time the Takers stamp out a Leaver culture, a wisdom ultimately tested since the birth of mankind disappears from the world beyond recall.

There are times when having too much to say can be as dumbfounding as having too little.

Do you see the slightest evidence anywhere in the universe that creation came to an end with the birth of man? Do you see the slightest evidence anywhere out there that man was the climax toward which creation had been straining from the beginning? ...Very far from it. The universe went on as before, the planet went on as before. Man's appearance caused no more stir than the appearance of jellyfish.

Don't try to drive the homeless into places we find suitable. Help them survive in places they find suitable.