History never seems to teach us any lessons. But that is no reason to give up.

Facts are almost irrelevant to most people. We make decisions based on emotion and then justify them later with whatever facts we can scrounge up in our defense.

This is why I say that the individual's most potent weapon is a stubborn belief in the triumph of common decency.

If we want to change things, we must first change ourselves. If we want to play - if we want to change the world - we must first show up on the field to score.

We are all born with a powerful herd instinct and it can force otherwise rational people to act in inexplicable ways.

Everybody was willing to give me a job. But I wanted to do something different. I saw myself as an independent person, self-employed.

History never seems to teach us any lessons. But that is no reason to give up.