Put the money into schools. Rational ones that train young minds to think, to demand that persons in authority show the evidence for the ideas they push. Do that, and we won't need to provide a world for the Sacred Brethren who, given the opportunity, would run everyone else off the planet.

When things go wrong, the standard management strategy is to decide who takes the blame. This should be an underling, as far down the chain as possible, but preferably with some visibility so people know management means business.

If you want creative and successful children, resign yourself to jousting with rebels.

We could never know who we truly were until we heard the whispers of the stars.

There are few professions whose primary objective is to advance the cause of humanity rather than simply to make money or accrue power. Among this limited group of humanitarians I would number teachers, nurses, bookstore owners, and bartenders.

There is nothing that overwhelms the senses quite like an unwelcome silence.

The cultures we can look at had already grasped the essential unity of nature. No board of gods can survive that knowledge.