We will never know what anyone is really like, until everyone has economic security and doesn't have to answer to anyone else.

People will continue to search for answers to universal and perplexing problems. But to find meaningful answers, one must first know what questions to ask.

There's no way to design a society that's optimal or utopian. It's better than the one that was. Systems always undergo change.

Our customs, behaviors, and values are byproducts of our culture.

There are no good or bad people, humans are shaped by culture.

Politics was good a hundred years ago. Today, politicians have no ability to solve any problems because they are not students of behavior. They are not students of agriculture, oceanography - they know nothing about the factors that operate the world.

You can't exceed the system with language. You can only exceed the system with events; recommended procedures that are better. You can't exceed the system by telling people to be good, be kind, be considerate... You have to take away the conditions that makes it necessary for you to be kind. And to be kind, you design highways that aren't slippery; where no accidents, or less accidents, occur. In the future, everybody becomes an innovator - a creator.